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Colasposoma fairmairei

Topic: Biology

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Short description: Species of beetle

Colasposoma fairmairei
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Colasposoma
Subgenus: Colasposoma (Colasposoma)
Species:
C. fairmairei
Binomial name
Colasposoma fairmairei
Lefèvre, 1877[1]
Synonyms

Dasychlorus varicolor Fairmaire, 1899

Colasposoma fairmairei is a species of leaf beetle. It is distributed in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo[2] and Sudan.[3] It was described by Édouard Lefèvre in 1877.

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of C. fairmairei:[4]

  • Colasposoma fairmairei fairmairei Lefèvre, 1877: The nominotypical subspecies. Distributed in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Colasposoma fairmairei katangense Burgeon, 1941: Distributed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

References

  1. ↑ Lefèvre, E. (1877). "Descriptions de Coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus de la Famille des Eumolpides (2e partie)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 5 7: 309–326. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8244637. 
  2. ↑ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo". chrysomelidae.it. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/DemRepCongo.html. 
  3. ↑ Selman, B. J. (1973). "Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)". Notulae Entomologicae 53 (4): 159–166. http://bionames.org/references/ff43482cd46240c4944ee93163a6b26f. 
  4. ↑ Burgeon, L. (1941). "Les Colasposoma et les Euryope du Congo Belge (Coléop. Chrysomel. Eumolp.)". Mémires de l'Institut Royal Colonial Belge 10 (5): 1–43. http://www.kaowarsom.be/documents/MEMOIRES_VERHANDELINGEN/Sciences_naturelles_medicales/Nat.Sc.(IRCB)_T.X,5_BURGEON,%20L._Les%20Colasposoma%20et%20les%20Euryope%20du%20Congo%20belge_1941.PDF. 

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