Lucignolo (beetle)

Lucignolo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:Eumolpinae
Genus:Lucignolo
Zoia, 2010[1]
Species: L. capensis
Binomial name
Lucignolo capensis
(Lefèvre, 1890)[2]
Synonyms

Trichostola capensis Lefèvre, 1890

Lucignolo is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[3] It contains only one species, Lucignolo capensis. It is distributed in South Africa.[1]

The genus is named after Lucignolo (or "Candlewick"), a character from Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio. This name refers to the shiny, delicate body of L. capensis.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Zoia, S. (2010). "New data on African Eumolpinae from the collections of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Basel (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey. 32: 323–341.
  2. ↑ Lefèvre, E. (1889). "DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AFRICAN EUMOLPIDÆ". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 6 (1): 39–43. doi:10.1080/21560382.1889.9526253.
  3. ↑ "Lucignolo". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 5 May 2018.


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