# Macrolema

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{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Australia and New Guinea}}
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| image = Macrolema vittata 446148699.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Macrolema vittata](/source/Macrolema_vittata)''
| taxon = Macrolema
| authority = [Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_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](/source/Macrolema_vittata)''
| type_species_authority = [Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1861<ref name="Baly1861"/>
| synonyms = ''Macrogonus'' <small>[Jacoby](/source/Martin_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](/source/Novitates_Zoologicae)|volume=1|pages=267–330|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.24565 }}</ref>
}}

'''''Macrolema''''' is a genus of [leaf beetle](/source/leaf_beetle)s in the subfamily [Spilopyrinae](/source/Spilopyrinae). It is found in eastern [Australia](/source/Australia) and [New Guinea](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Macrolema_aenescens)'' <small>(Bowditch, 1913)</small> – eastern New Guinea
* ''[Macrolema albascutica](/source/Macrolema_albascutica)'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – north Queensland
* ''[Macrolema atripennis](/source/Macrolema_atripennis)'' <small>(Bowditch, 1913)</small> – south Queensland, north New South Wales
* ''[Macrolema dickdaviesi](/source/Macrolema_dickdaviesi)'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – north Queensland
* ''[Macrolema giya](/source/Macrolema_giya)'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – central Queensland
* ''[Macrolema karimui](/source/Macrolema_karimui)'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – central New Guinea
* ''[Macrolema longicornis](/source/Macrolema_longicornis)'' <small>[Jacoby](/source/Martin_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](/source/Macrolema_metallica)'' <small>([Lea](/source/Arthur_Mills_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](/source/Records_of_the_South_Australian_Museum)|volume=2|pages=271–309}}</ref> – north Queensland
* ''[Macrolema pulchra](/source/Macrolema_pulchra)'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – north Queensland
* ''[Macrolema quadrivittata](/source/Macrolema_quadrivittata)'' <small>([Jacoby](/source/Martin_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](/source/Macrolema_submetallica)'' <small>([Jacoby](/source/Martin_Jacoby), 1894)</small><ref name="Jacoby1894"/> – north Queensland
* ''[Macrolema ventralis](/source/Macrolema_ventralis)'' <small>([Lea](/source/Arthur_Mills_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](/source/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](/source/Macrolema_vittata)'' <small>[Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1861</small><ref name="Baly1861"/> – south Queensland, north New South Wales

==References==
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==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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