Sagra (beetle)

{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Frog-leg beetle (Sagra sp.) male Nyamebe Bepo.jpg | image_caption = ''Sagra'' sp. from Ghana | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Sagra | parent_authority = Leach, 1815 | authority = Fabricius, 1792 | synonyms = * ''Sagrania'' Rafinesque, 1815 * ''Tinosagra'' Weise, 1905 * ''Orthosagra'' Crowson, 1946 * ''Prosagra'' Crowson, 1946 * ''Sagrina'' Crowson, 1946 * ''Sagrinola'' Monrós & Bechyné, 1956 | synonyms_ref = <ref name=CPC /> }}

'''''Sagra''''' is a genus of frog-legged leaf beetles (family Chrysomelidae) placed in the monotypic tribe '''Sagrini'''. Members of this genus are found in Africa, Asia, and Australia (including New Guinea).

==List of species== The genus includes the following species:<ref name=CPC>{{cite book|last=Sekerka|first=L.|year=2024|chapter=Subfamily Sagrinae Leach, 1815|pages=175–176|editor-last1=Bezděk|editor-first1=J.|editor-last2=Sekerka|editor-first2=L.|title=Chrysomeloidea II (Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae, Chrysomelidae) – Part 1|series=Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera|volume=6/2/1|edition=Updated and Revised Second|place=Leiden, The Netherlands|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-44330-3|doi=10.1163/9789004443303}}</ref><ref name=Malaysia>{{cite book|last=Mohamedsaid|first=M. S.|year=2004|title=Catalogue of the Malaysian Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)|pages=1–239|place=Sofia|publisher=Pensoft Publishers|series=Pensoft Series Faunistica|volume=36|isbn=9546422010|issn=1312-0174}}</ref><ref name=Sagrinaetypes>{{cite journal|last1=Sekerka|first1=L.|last2=Voisin|first2=J.-F.|year=2014|title=Types of Sagrinae in the collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)|journal=Annales de la Société entomologique de France|series=N.S.|volume=49|issue=4|pages=413–429|doi=10.1080/00379271.2014.893681}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sekerka|first1=L.|last2=Geiser|first2=M.|year=2016|title=Sagrinae of Laos (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)|journal=Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey|volume=35|pages=443–453|doi=10.5169/seals-980963|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Clavareau">{{cite contribution|last=Clavareau|first=H.|year=1913|title=Chrysomelidae: 1. Sagrinae, 2. Donaciinae, 3. Orsodacninae, 4. Criocerinae|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10432889|editor-last1=Junk|editor-first1=W.|editor-link1=Wilhelm Junk|editor-last2=Schenkling|editor-first2=S.|editor-link2=Sigmund Schenkling|encyclopedia=Coleopterorum Catalogus|volume=51|pages=1–103|place=Berlin|publisher=W. Junk}}</ref>

* ''Sagra adonis'' Lacordaire, 1845 – Guinea * ''Sagra amethystina'' Guérin-Méneville, 1844 – western Africa, South Africa * ''Sagra bicolor'' Lacordaire, 1845 – tropical Africa * ''Sagra buqueti'' Lesson, 1831 – Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines * ''Sagra carbunculus'' Hope, 1842 – Northeast India, Nepal, Myanmar (?) * ''Sagra coeruleata'' Lacordaire, 1845 – Madagascar * ''Sagra congoana'' Clavareau, 1916 – DR Congo, Angola * ''Sagra cyanea'' Dalman, 1823 – Sierra Leone * ''Sagra diversepunctata'' Pic, 1938 – Ivory Coast * ''Sagra dohrni'' Baly, 1860 – Guinea * ''Sagra femorata'' (Drury, 1773) – tropical Asia from India to Australia * ''Sagra ferox'' Baly, 1877 – eastern Africa * ''Sagra fulgida'' Weber, 1801 – Southern China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam * ''Sagra galinieri'' Lacordaire, 1845 – eastern Africa * ''Sagra haefligeri'' Weise, 1905 – Tanzania * ''Sagra hayekae'' David, 1954<ref>{{cite journal|last=David|first=H.C.P.|year=1954|title=Une nouvelle espèce de Sagra africaine (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|series=12|volume=7|issue=76|pages=303–304|doi=10.1080/00222935408651731}}</ref> – Kenya * ''Sagra humeralis'' Jacoby, 1904 – China (Guizhou, Yunnan and Zheijing) * ''Sagra jansoni'' Baly, 1860 – China (Yunnan), India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam * ''Sagra javeti'' Baly, 1860 – South Africa * ''Sagra johnstoni'' Gahan, 1893 – Malawi * ''Sagra livingstonii'' Baly, 1864 – Zambesi River * ''Sagra moghanii'' Chen & Pu, 1962 – China (Yunnan) * ''Sagra mouhoti'' Baly, 1862 – Cambodia, China (Yunnan), Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam * ''Sagra murrayi'' Baly, 1860 – eastern Africa * ''Sagra odontopus'' Gistel, 1831 – Cambodia, China (Guangdong, Yunnan), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam * ''Sagra rugulipennis'' Weise, 1901 – New Guinea * ''Sagra senegalensis'' Klug, 1835 – Senegal, eastern Africa * ''Sagra tristis'' Fabricius, 1798 – Guinea, Angola, Congo, Tanzania * ''Sagra violacea'' (Olivier, 1789) – western Africa, Somalia, Kenya, Chad, Uganda, Cameroon

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Chrysomelidae Category:Chrysomelidae genera