Rhyparida suturalis

Rhyparida suturalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Rhyparida
Species:
R. suturalis
Binomial name
Rhyparida suturalis
Jacoby, 1894

Rhyparida suturalis is a species of beetle in the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae) native to the Tanimbar Islands in Indonesia. The scientific name of the species was published in 1894 by Martin Jacoby.[1][2]: 172 

Description

It has fulvous, head and thorax closely and strongly punctured, elytra strongly punctate-striate, the sutural and lateral margins piceous.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Jacoby, M. (1894). "Descriptions of new genera and species of phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by W. Doherty in the Malayan Archipelago". Novitates Zoologicae. 1: 279. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.24565.
  2. ^ Kimoto, S. (1985). "Check-list of Chrysomelidae of South East Asia, South of Thailand and West of Irian-Jaya of Indonesia, IV. Eumolpinae, 2". Kurume University Journal. 34 (2): 153–177.