Chloropterus lefevrei

Chloropterus lefevrei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Chloropterus
Species:	C. lefevrei
Binomial name
	Chloropterus lefevrei; Reitter, 1890
Synonyms
	Chloropterus nigrofasciatus Reitter, 1897; Chloropterus nigrofasciatus var. bipunctatus Reitter, 1897; Chloropterus nigrofasciatus var. bucharicus Reitter, 1897;

Chloropterus lefevrei is a species of leaf beetle distributed from the Caucasus via Central Asia to Western Asia.^[4]^[3] It was first described by Edmund Reitter in 1890, who named it after Édouard Lefèvre.^[1]

Subspecies[]

There are two subspecies of C. lefevrei:^[4]

Chloropterus lefevrei arabicus Lopatin, 2008: Found in the United Arab Emirates.^[5]
Chloropterus lefevrei lefevrei Reitter, 1890: The nominotypical subspecies. Found in Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Oman,^[6] Saudi Arabia,^[7] Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Reitter, E. (1890). "Beschreibungen neuer Coleopteren aus Europa, dem Kaukasus, Russisch-Armenien und Turkestan". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 9: 189–198.
^ ^a ^b ^c Reitter, E. (1897). "Dreiſsig neue Coleopteren aus russisch Asien und der Mongolei" (PDF). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 1897 (2): 209–228.
^ ^a ^b ^c Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
^ ^a ^b Lopatin, I. (2008). "Order Coleoptera, family Chrysomelidae". Arthropod Fauna of the UAE. 1: 312–324. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.527.5258.
^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: United Arab Emirates". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Oman". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 28, 2016.

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