Macrocoma leprieuri
Species of beetle
Macrocoma leprieuri leaf beetle from North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to the Horn of Africa . It was first described by Édouard Lefèvre in 1876, as a species of Pachnephorus [ 4]
Subspecies
There are two subspecies of M. leprieuri :[ 2]
Macrocoma leprieuri leprieuri (Lefèvre , 1876) : The nominotypical subspecies . Distributed in Morocco ,[ 5] Algeria ,[ 6] Tunisia ,[ 7] United Arab Emirates .[ 8] Saudi Arabia ,[ 9] Yemen ,[ 10] Egypt ,[ 11] Libya ,[ 12] Sudan , Ethiopia and Somalia .[ 13] Macrocoma leprieuri majuscula Bechyné , 1957Egypt . It is larger in size than the nominal form of the species, measuring between 4.5 and 6 mm.
References
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