{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Australia and New Guinea}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Macrolema vittata 446148699.jpg | image_caption = ''Macrolema vittata'' | taxon = Macrolema | authority = Baly, 1861<ref name="Baly1861">{{cite journal|last=Baly|first=J. S.|year=1861|title=Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophaga|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12767983|journal=The Journal of Entomology|volume=1|pages=275–302}}</ref> | type_species = ''Macrolema vittata'' | type_species_authority = Baly, 1861<ref name="Baly1861"/> | synonyms = ''Macrogonus'' <small>Jacoby, 1894</small><ref name="Jacoby1894">{{cite journal|last=Jacoby|first=M.|year=1894|title=Descriptions of new genera and species of phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by W. Doherty in the Malayan Archipelago|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3857542|journal=Novitates Zoologicae|volume=1|pages=267–330|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.24565 }}</ref> }}

'''''Macrolema''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Spilopyrinae. It is found in eastern Australia and New Guinea.<ref name="ReidBeatson2010">{{cite journal|last1=Reid|first1=C. A. M.|last2=Beatson|first2=M.|year=2010|title=Revision of the Australo-Papuan genus ''Macrolema'' Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Spilopyrinae), with description of a new genus|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02486p060.pdf|journal=Zootaxa|volume=2486|pages=1–60|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2486.1.1|doi-access=free}} {{erratum|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2520.1.3|checked=yes}}</ref>

==Species== * ''Macrolema aenescens'' <small>(Bowditch, 1913)</small> – eastern New Guinea * ''Macrolema albascutica'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – north Queensland * ''Macrolema atripennis'' <small>(Bowditch, 1913)</small> – south Queensland, north New South Wales * ''Macrolema dickdaviesi'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – north Queensland * ''Macrolema giya'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – central Queensland * ''Macrolema karimui'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – central New Guinea * ''Macrolema longicornis'' <small>Jacoby, 1895</small><ref name="Jacoby1895">{{cite journal|last=Jacoby|first=M.|year=1895|title=Descriptions of new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from the Indo- and Austro-Malayan-Regions|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8945102|journal=Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung|volume=56|pages=52–80}}</ref> – south Queensland, north New South Wales * ''Macrolema metallica'' <small>(Lea, 1922)</small><ref name="Lea1922">{{cite journal|last=Lea|first=A. M.|year=1922|title=On Australian Coleoptera. Part IV. Family Chrysomelidae|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13918769|journal=Records of the South Australian Museum|volume=2|pages=271–309}}</ref> – north Queensland * ''Macrolema pulchra'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – north Queensland * ''Macrolema quadrivittata'' <small>(Jacoby, 1898)</small><ref name="Jacoby1898">{{cite journal|last=Jacoby|first=M.|year=1898|title=New species of phytophagous Coleoptera from Australia and the Malayan regions|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35546546|journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique|volume=42|pages=350–380}}</ref> – north Queensland * ''Macrolema submetallica'' <small>(Jacoby, 1894)</small><ref name="Jacoby1894"/> – north Queensland * ''Macrolema ventralis'' <small>(Lea, 1921)</small><ref>{{cite journal|last=Lea|first=A.M.|year=1921|title=Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part XVII|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3785441|journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales|volume=46|issue=3|pages=351–369|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.14024 |doi-access=free}}</ref> – north New South Wales * ''Macrolema vittata'' <small>Baly, 1861</small><ref name="Baly1861"/> – south Queensland, north New South Wales

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Macrolema Australian Faunal Directory – Genus ''Macrolema'' Baly, 1861]

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Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of Australia Category:Beetles of Papua New Guinea Category:Taxa named by Joseph Sugar Baly

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