Alema

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Galerucinae
Tribus: Alticini
Subtribus: Manobiina
Genus: Alema
Species: A. paradoxa – A. spatiosa
Name

Alema Sharp, 1876

Type species: Alema paradoxa Sharp, 1876, by monotypy.
References

Samuelson, G.A. 1973. Alticinae of Oceania (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 30: 1–165. PDF. Reference page.
Sharp, D. 1876. Descriptions of some new genera and species of New Zealand Coleoptera (concluded from page 77.) Entomologist's monthly magazine 13: 97–102. BHL Reference page.
Shaw, S. 1957. A revision of the New Zealand species of the genus Alema Sharp (Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12 10(116): 561–566. DOI: 10.1080/00222935708655999 Paywall. Reference page.