# Melindea

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***Melindea*** is a genus of [leaf beetles](/source/Leaf_beetle) in the subfamily [Eumolpinae](/source/Eumolpinae).[5] It is known from [Africa](/source/Africa).

## Species

- *[Melindea abyssinica](/source/Melindea_abyssinica)* [Lefèvre](/source/%C3%89douard_Lef%C3%A8vre), 1884[1] – Ethiopia
- *[Melindea brunnea](/source/Melindea_brunnea)* ([Jacoby](/source/Martin_Jacoby), 1901)[2] – Zimbabwe, DR Congo
- *[Melindea denticrus](/source/Melindea_denticrus)* (Burgeon, 1941) – Cameroon
- *[Melindea ferruginipes](/source/Melindea_ferruginipes)* ([Weise](/source/Julius_Weise), 1924)[6] – DR Congo, Ivory Coast
- *[Melindea limbata](/source/Melindea_limbata)* ([Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic), 1923)[4] – Ethiopia
- *[Melindea nigripes](/source/Melindea_nigripes)* (Bryant, 1954)[7] – Kenya
- *[Melindea nigrita](/source/Melindea_nigrita)* ([Jacoby](/source/Martin_Jacoby), 1901)[2] – Ethiopia, Kenya, DR Congo, Uganda, Sudan
- *[Melindea nigritarsis](/source/Melindea_nigritarsis)* (Bryant, 1954)[7] – Ethiopia
- *[Melindea opaca](/source/Melindea_opaca)* ([Weise](/source/Julius_Weise), 1915) – DR Congo
- *[Melindea pubescens](/source/Melindea_pubescens)* (Bryant, 1941)[8] – Senegal
- *[Melindea robusta](/source/Melindea_robusta)* ([Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic), 1923)[4] – Ethiopia
- *[Melindea rufescens](/source/Melindea_rufescens)* ([Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic), 1950) – Niger: [Aïr Mountains](/source/A%C3%AFr_Mountains)
- *[Melindea semifulva](/source/Melindea_semifulva)* (Bryant, 1954)[7] – Kenya
- *[Melindea virescens](/source/Melindea_virescens)* ([Lefèvre](/source/%C3%89douard_Lef%C3%A8vre), 1885)[9][10] – Ethiopia

## References

1. Lefèvre, E. (1884). ["*Melindea*, *Phascus*, *Pagria* nn. genn."](https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32550549). *[Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France](/source/Bulletin_de_la_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_entomologique_de_France)*. **4**: LXV–LXVII.

1. Jacoby, M. (1901). ["A further contribution to our knowledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera."](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/36456). *[Transactions of the Entomological Society of London](/source/Transactions_of_the_Entomological_Society_of_London)*. **49** (3): 209–256. [doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1901.tb02386.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1901.tb02386.x)

1. Jacoby, M. (1904). ["Another contribution to the knowledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/70283). *[Journal of Zoology](/source/Journal_of_Zoology)*. **74** (1): 230–270. [doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08290.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08290.x)

1. Pic, M. (1923). ["Nouveautés diverses"](http://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2011-09/picmau0001melexo/picmau0001melexov00000i00040/picmau0001melexov00000i00040.pdf). *Mélanges Exotico–Entomologiques*. **40**: 1–32.

1. ["Melindea"](http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Melindea.html). *African Eumolpinae site*. Retrieved 23 July 2018.

1. Weise, J. (1924). ["Zoological Results of the Swedish Expedition to Central Africa 1921. Insecta. 7. Chrysomelidae und Coccinellidae"](https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/addpages/Andrey_Ukrainsky_Library/References_files/Weise24.pdf). *Arkiv för Zoologi*. **16** (22): 1–30.

1. Bryant, G. E. (1954). "New species of Chrysomelidae (Eumolpinae and Halticinae, Coleoptera) from Kenya colony forwarded by the Nairobi Museum". *[Annals and Magazine of Natural History](/source/Annals_and_Magazine_of_Natural_History)*. **7** (77): 353–361. 12. [doi:10.1080/00222935408651739](https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935408651739)

1. Bryant, G. E. (1941). "New species of African Chrysomelidae (Col.)". *Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy*. **10** (11): 209–214. [Bibcode:1941SysEn..10..209B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1941SysEn..10..209B). [doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1941.tb00681.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1941.tb00681.x)

1. Lefèvre, É. (1885). ["Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis"](https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27434526). *Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège*. **11** (16): 1–172. 2.

1. Zoia, S. (2019). "Nomenclature changes in African Eumolpinae with reference to type specimens preserved in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". *[Annales de la Société Entomologique de France](/source/Annales_de_la_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Entomologique_de_France)*. **55** (1): 61–86. Nouvelle Série. [Bibcode:2019AnSEF..55...61Z](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AnSEF..55...61Z). [doi:10.1080/00379271.2018.1556119](https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2018.1556119). [S2CID 155689938](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:155689938)

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