Lucignolo (beetle)
Lucignolo is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[3] It was first erected in 2010 by Stefano Zoia. It contains only one species, Lucignolo capensis, originally described by Édouard Lefèvre in 1890. It is distributed in South Africa.[1]
| Lucignolo | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Eumolpini |
| Genus: | Lucignolo Zoia, 2010[1] |
| Species: | L. capensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Lucignolo capensis | |
| Synonyms | |
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Trichostola capensis Lefèvre, 1890 | |
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. The species was originally placed in Trichostola, but is now thought to be closely related to Odontionopa.[1]
References
- 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.
- Lefèvre, E. (1889). "Description of new species of South African Eumolpidae". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 6 (1): 39–43. doi:10.1080/21560382.1889.9526253.
- "Lucignolo". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
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