''Montrouzierella'' is a genus 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 ...

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 is known from the South Province and

Mont Panié Mont Panié is a mountain on the island of Grande Terre in New Caledonia, a special collectivity of France located in the south-west Pacific Ocean. At , it is the island's highest point. Mont Panié is situated in the Chaîne Centrale mountain ...

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

, and is named after

Xavier Montrouzier Reverendus Pater Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier (3 December 1820 – 6 May 1897) was a French Marist priest, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora and fauna of Melanesia especially New Caledonia. ...

, the pioneer entomologist of New Caledonia. The genus was established based on general proportions and body size, and may be

polyphyletic A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies ...

paraphyletic Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages. The grouping is said to be paraphyletic ''with respect to'' the excluded subgroups. In co ...

Species

* '' Montrouzierella brinoni'' Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007 * '' Montrouzierella flava'' Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007 * '' Montrouzierella metrosiderosi'' Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2011 * '' Montrouzierella nana'' Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007 * '' Montrouzierella subtuberculata'' Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2010 * '' Montrouzierella tuberculata'' Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007 The following species have been transferred to other genera: * ''Montrouzierella costata'' Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2007: transferred to '' Kumatoeides'' * ''Montrouzierella hispida'' Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2013: transferred to '' Dematotrichus''

References

Eumolpinae Chrysomelidae genera Insects of New Caledonia Beetles of Oceania Endemic fauna of New Caledonia {{Eumolpinae-stub