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Mecistes tarsalis
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Mecistes tarsalis

Mecistes tarsalis is a species of leaf beetle found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia (with uncertainty), Botswana and South Africa. It was first described by the Belgian entomologist Félicien Chapuis in 1874.

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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 674265.