Heteraspis vicina
| Heteraspis vicina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Heteraspis |
| Species: | H. vicina |
| Binomial name | |
| Heteraspis vicina | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Heteraspis vicina is a species of leaf beetle found in Central and East Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. It was first described from the region of Lake Nyassa by the German entomologist Edgar von Harold in 1877.[1]
Distribution
[edit]H. vicina is recorded from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Harold, E. von (1877). "Coleopterorum species novae". Mittheilungen des Münchener Entomologischen Vereins. 1: 97–111.
- ↑ Harold, E. von (1878). "Notes synonymiques". Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques. 2: 206.
- ↑ Baly, J.S. (1878). "Diagnosis of a new genus and some undescribed species of African Phytophaga". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 14: 177–179.
- ↑ Abdel-Dayem, M.S.; Abu El-Ghiet, U.M.; Elsheikh, T.M.; Elgharbawy, A.A.; Al-Fifi, Z.I.A.; Aldhafer, H.M. (2020). "The first survey of the beetles (Coleoptera) of the Farasan Archipelago of the southern Red Sea, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". ZooKeys (959): 17–86. doi:10.3897/zookeys.959.51224. PMC 7442752.