Sagra (beetle)

Sagra
Sagra sp. from Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Sagrinae
Genus:
Fabricius, 1792
Synonyms[1]
  • Sagrania Rafinesque, 1815
  • Tinosagra Weise, 1905
  • Orthosagra Crowson, 1946
  • Prosagra Crowson, 1946
  • Sagrina Crowson, 1946
  • Sagrinola Monrós & Bechyné, 1956

Sagra is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, commonly referred to as frog-legged beetles or kangaroo beetles.

List of species

The genus includes the following species:[1][2][3][4][5]

  • 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[6] – 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

  1. ^ a b Sekerka, L. (2024). "Subfamily Sagrinae Leach, 1815". In Bezděk, J.; Sekerka, L. (eds.). Chrysomeloidea II (Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae, Chrysomelidae) – Part 1. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 6/2/1 (Updated and Revised Second ed.). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 175–176. doi:10.1163/9789004443303. ISBN 978-90-04-44330-3.
  2. ^ Mohamedsaid, M. S. (2004). Catalogue of the Malaysian Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Pensoft Series Faunistica. Vol. 36. Sofia: Pensoft Publishers. pp. 1–239. ISBN 9546422010. ISSN 1312-0174.
  3. ^ Sekerka, L.; Voisin, J.-F. (2014). "Types of Sagrinae in the collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. N.S. 49 (4): 413–429. doi:10.1080/00379271.2014.893681.
  4. ^ Sekerka, L.; Geiser, M. (2016). "Sagrinae of Laos (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey. 35: 443–453. doi:10.5169/seals-980963.
  5. ^ Clavareau, H. (1913). "Chrysomelidae: 1. Sagrinae, 2. Donaciinae, 3. Orsodacninae, 4. Criocerinae". In Junk, W.; Schenkling, S. (eds.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 51. Berlin: W. Junk. pp. 1–103.
  6. ^ David, H.C.P. (1954). "Une nouvelle espèce de Sagra africaine (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12. 7 (76): 303–304. doi:10.1080/00222935408651731.