Sarum (beetle)
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''Sarum'' 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. ...
, found in
Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...
. Most of its species were originally placed in '' Rhembastus''.


Species

* '' Sarum baerti'' Selman, 1972 * '' Sarum geminatus'' ( Jacoby, 1900) * '' Sarum inermis'' ( Jacoby, 1901) * '' Sarum mashonanus'' ( Jacoby, 1901) * '' Sarum monardi'' (
Pic PIC or pic may refer to: Places * Penbay International Circuit, or PIC, a motor track circuit in Pingtung County, Taiwan * Pic River, in Ontario, Canada * Picayune (Amtrak station) (Amtrak station code PIC), Mississippi, United States * Pic, a ...
, 1940)
* '' Sarum obscurellus'' ( Gerstaecker, 1871) * ''
Sarum pergeminatus ''Sarum pergeminatus'' is a species of leaf beetle. It is distributed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic t ...
'' (Burgeon, 1941)


References

Eumolpinae Chrysomelidae genera Beetles of Africa {{Eumolpinae-stub