Colasposoma fairmairei

Short description: Species of beetle

Colasposoma fairmairei

Scientific classification
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, L._Les Colasposoma et les Euryope du Congo belge_1941.PDF.

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