''Macroplea'' is a genus of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

of the subfamily

Donaciinae The Donaciinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae, characterised by distinctly long antenna (biology), antennae. They are found in mainly the Northern Hemisphere, with some species found in the Southern Hemisphere. Life cy ...

in the family of

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

Description

The body color is not metallic. Their

paw A paw is the soft foot-like part of a mammal, generally a quadruped, that has claws. Common characteristics The paw is characterised by thin, pigmented, keratinised, hairless epidermis covering subcutaneous collagenous and adipose tissue, whi ...

s are longer than their

crus Crus can refer to: *''Crus'', a subgenus of the fly genus ''Metopochetus'' *Crus (lower leg) *Crus, a plural of Cru (wine) *CRUs, an abbreviation of Civil Resettlement Units * Rektorenkonferenz der Schweizer Universitäten (CRUS; English: Rectors ...

claw A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds). Some invertebrates such as beetles and spiders have somewhat similar fine, hooked structures at the end of the leg or Arthro ...

segment very long, one and a half to two times higher than the rest of the body. Outer

apical Apical means "pertaining to an apex". It may refer to: *Apical ancestor, refers to the last common ancestor of an entire group, such as a species (biology) or a clan (anthropology) *Apical (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features loc ...

angle of

elytron An elytron (; ; : elytra, ) 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 ...

extended into a spike.

Selected species

*'' Macroplea appendiculata'' (Panzer, 1794) *'' Macroplea japana'' (Jacoby, 1885) *'' Macroplea mutica'' (Fabricius, 1792) *'' Macroplea pubipennis'' (Reuter, 1875) *'' Macroplea skomorokhovi'' Medvedev, 2006

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1758285 Chrysomelidae genera Donaciinae Taxa named by George Samouelle