{{short description|Species of beetle}} {{Speciesbox | genus = Macrocoma | species = leprieuri | authority = (Lefèvre, 1876)<ref name="Lefevre1876">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=É.|year=1876|title=Synopsis des Eumolpides d'Europe et confins|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47549589|journal=L'Abeille, Mémoires d'Entomologie|volume=14|pages=1–20}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="Bechyné1957">{{cite journal|last=Bechyné|first=J.|year=1957|title=Notes sur quelques Chrysomeloidea paléarctiques recueillis par M.G. Fagel (Coleopterea phytophaga)|url=http://new-biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-bulletin-de-linstitut-royal-des-sciences-naturelles-de-belgique-bulletin-van-het-koninklijk-belgisch-instituut-voor-natuurwetenschappen/vol-34-1957/irscnb_p4087_rbins17572_33_bulletin-31.pdf|journal = Bulletin of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences|volume=33|issue=31|pages=1–4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Moseyko|first1=A. G.|last2=Sprecher-Uebersax|first2=E.|year=2010|chapter=Eumolpinae|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620|editor-last1=Löbl|editor-first1=I.|editor-last2=Smetana|editor-first2=A.|title=Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea|location=Stenstrup, Denmark|publisher=Apollo Books|pages=619–643|isbn=978-87-88757-84-2}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Pseudocolaspis leprieuri'' <small>Lefèvre, 1876</small> * ?''Pseudocolaspis pachydera'' <small>Fairmaire, 1876</small> * ?''Macrocoma melillensis'' <small>Kocher, 1967</small> }}

'''''Macrocoma leprieuri''''' is a species of leaf beetle from North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to the Horn of Africa. It was first described by Édouard Lefèvre in 1876, as a species of ''Pachnephorus''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Warchałowski|first=A.|year=2001|title=A preliminary review of Western Palaearctic ''Macrocoma'' CHEVROLAT, 1837 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)|journal=Genus|volume=12|issue=4|pages=449–477|citeseerx=10.1.1.631.3702}}</ref>

==Subspecies== There are two subspecies of ''M. leprieuri'':<ref name="Bechyné1957"/> *''Macrocoma leprieuri leprieuri'' <small>(Lefèvre, 1876)</small>: The nominotypical subspecies. Distributed in Morocco,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/Morocco.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: Morocco|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> Algeria,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/Algeria.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: Libya|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> Tunisia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/Tunisia.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: Tunisia|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=August 1, 2016}}</ref> and the United Arab Emirates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/UniArabEmirates.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: United Arab Emirates|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=July 29, 2016}}</ref> Also reported from Saudi Arabia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/SaudiArabia.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=July 28, 2016}}</ref> Yemen,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/Yemen.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: Yemen|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=August 1, 2016}}</ref> Egypt,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/Egypt.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: Egypt|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=August 1, 2016}}</ref> Libya,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/Libya.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: Libya|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=August 1, 2016}}</ref> Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.<ref name="Selman1973">{{cite journal|last=Selman|first=B. J.|year=1973|title=Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)|url=http://bionames.org/references/ff43482cd46240c4944ee93163a6b26f|journal=Notulae Entomologicae|volume=53|issue=4|pages=159–166}}</ref> It measures between 3.6 and 4.5&nbsp;mm. *''Macrocoma leprieuri majuscula'' <small>Bechyné, 1957</small>: Found in Egypt. It is larger in size than the nominal form of the species, measuring between 4.5 and 6&nbsp;mm.

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leprieuri Category:Beetles of Africa Category:Beetles of North Africa Category:Beetles of Asia Category:Beetles of the Arabian Peninsula Category:Beetles of Sudan Category:Beetles of Ethiopia Category:Beetles of Somalia Category:Taxa named by Édouard Lefèvre Category:Beetles of Morocco Category:Beetles of Algeria Category:Beetles of Tunisia Category:Beetles of the United Arab Emirates Category:Beetles of Saudi Arabia Category:Beetles of Yemen Category:Beetles of Egypt Category:Beetles of Libya

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