''Macrocoma'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

leaf beetle The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...

s in the subfamily

Eumolpinae The Eumolpinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. It is one of the largest subfamilies of leaf beetles, including more than 500 genera and 7000 species. They are oval, and convex in form, and measure up to 10 mm in size. ...

. It contains about 100 species, which are found in

tropical Africa Although tropical Africa is mostly familiar to the West for its rainforests, this biogeographic realm of Africa is far more diverse. While the tropics are thought of as regions with hot moist climates, which are caused by latitude and the tr ...

, around the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on th ...

, on the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Mo ...

, in

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and

central Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known a ...

Asia, and in

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. ''Macrocoma'' is closely related to the African genus ''

Pseudocolaspis ''Pseudocolaspis'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains about 80 species, which are found in tropical Africa. Species References Eumolpinae Chrysomelidae genera Beetles of Africa Taxa named by Françoi ...

'', and has sometimes been treated as a junior synonym of it historically. The two genera are distinguished by the exposure of the

pygidium The pygidium (plural pygidia) is the posterior body part or shield of crustaceans and some other arthropods, such as insects and the extinct trilobites. In groups other than insects, it contains the anus and, in females, the ovipositor. It is com ...

and the shape of the anterior edges of the

prosternum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum ( dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron ( lateral) on ...

: in ''Macrocoma'', the pygidium is covered by the

elytra An elytron (; ; , ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs ( Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes altern ...

and the anterior edges of the prosternum are flat, while in ''Pseudocolaspis'', the pygidium is more than half-exposed and the anterior edges of the prosternum are convex. Currently, several species are not arranged according to these characters.

Species

Species include: Renamed species: * ''M. impressa'' (Berti & Rapilly, 1973) nec Achard, 1925: renamed to '' M. bertiae'' Moseyko, 2013 Synonyms: * ''M. hormuziaca'' Warchałowski, 2001: synonym of '' M. zarudnii'' Lopatin, 1985

References

Eumolpinae Chrysomelidae genera Taxa named by Félicien Chapuis Beetles of Africa Beetles of Asia Beetles of Europe {{Eumolpinae-stub