{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Micromolpus | display_parents = 2 | authority = Gressitt, 1969<ref name="Gressitt1969">{{cite journal|first=J. L.|last=Gressitt|year=1969|title=Chrysomelid beetles from the Papuan subregion, 6 (Eumolpinae, 4)|url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/11(1)-1.pdf|journal=Pacific Insects|volume=11|issue=1|pages=1–31}}</ref> | type_species = ''Micromolpus dodonaeae'' | type_species_authority = Gressitt, 1969<ref name="Gressitt1969"/> }}
'''''Micromolpus''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in New Guinea, New Ireland and questionably New Britain. It resembles the genus ''Rhyparida'', but differs from it by being minute in size, lacking a "Y"-shaped suture on the frontoclypeus (a combined frons and clypeus, making up part of the face), having a constricted vertex (top of the head), and having a strongly convex pronotum, and being strongly punctured only along borders. The name of the genus refers to "a small eumolpine beetle".<ref name="Gressitt1969"/>
==Species== * ''Micromolpus dodonaeae'' <small>Gressitt, 1969</small><ref name="Gressitt1969"/> – Papua New Guinea (Eastern Highlands, Chimbu, Morobe, Jiwaka, Southern Highlands) * ''Micromolpus pipturi'' <small>Gressitt, 1969</small><ref name="Gressitt1969"/> – Western New Guinea: Highland Papua (Jayawijaya), Papua New Guinea (Southern Highlands, Eastern Highlands) * ''Micromolpus submetallica'' <small>Gressitt, 1969</small><ref name="Gressitt1969"/> – New Ireland, New Britain(?) * ''Micromolpus triumfettae'' <small>Gressitt, 1969</small><ref name="Gressitt1969"/> – Western New Guinea: Central Papua (Dogiyai), Papua New Guinea (Eastern Highlands, Jiwaka)
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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of Oceania Category:Beetles of Papua New Guinea Category:Insects of New Guinea Category:Insects of Western New Guinea Category:Endemic fauna of New Guinea Category:Taxa named by Judson Linsley Gressitt
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