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Mecistes
Mecistes is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in central and eastern Africa, from the Uele region and Kenya to Namibia, Botswana and the Eastern provinces of the Republic of South Africa, and in Saudi Arabia. It closely resembles the Oriental genus Apolepis.
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Mecistes seriatus
speciesMecistes seriatus
Mecistes tarsalis
speciesMecistes tarsalis
Mecistes audisioi
speciesMecistes audisioi
Mecistes flavipes
speciesMecistes flavipes
Mecistes grobbelaarae
speciesMecistes grobbelaarae
Mecistes thompsoni
speciesMecistes thompsoni
Mecistes ziliolii
speciesMecistes ziliolii
Mecistes zimbabweensis
speciesMecistes zimbabweensis
Mecistes chapuisi
speciesMecistes chapuisi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 640445.