Meristata

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: Hylaspini
Genus: Meristata
Species: M. dohrnii – M. elongata – M. fallax – M. fraternalis – M. pulunini – M. quadrifasciata – M. sexmaculata – M. spilota
Name

Meristata Strand, 1935

Type species: Galleruca sexmaculata Kollar & L. Redtenbacher, 1844, automatic.
Synonymy

Merista Chapuis, 1875: 228 [junior homonym]
Type species: Galleruca sexmaculata Kollar & L. Redtenbacher, 1844
Meristata Strand, 1935: 297 [new replacement name]

Meristata spilota, Munsiyari, India.

References
Primary references

Chapuis, F. 1875. Tome onzième. Famille des phytophages. In: Lacordaire, J.T. & Chapuis, F. (eds) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 420 pp. BHL. Reference page.
Strand, E. 1935. Revision von Gattungsnamen palaearktischer Coleoptera. Folia Zoologia et Hydrobiologia 7 [1934–1935]: 282–299. [not seen]

Additional references

Beenen, R. 2010. Galerucinae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 443–491. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 924 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. Google Books. Reference page.
Bezděk, J. 2012. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Oriental and Palaearctic Galerucinae and Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Genus: 23(3): 375–418. PDF. Reference page.
Bezděk, J. & Nie, R-E. 2019. Taxonomical changes and new records of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 22(3): 655–665. DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2019.05.002 Paywall. ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.
Kimoto, S. 1989. Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. IV. Galerucinae. Esakia 27: 1–241. hdl: 2324/2511 Open access. Reference page.
Medvedev, L.N. 1999. To the knowledge of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Nepal and adjacent regions. Veröffentlichungen des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt 18: 181–187. PDF.
Silfverberg, H. 1990. Records of Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from the Indian subcontinent. Part 1. Entomologica Fennica 1(4): 201–207. DOI: 10.33338/ef.83486 Open access.
Zhang, L.-J. & Yang, X.-K. 2002. Study on the genus Meristata Strand (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of China. Entomotaxonomia 24(4): 245–253. Abstract.

Meristata is a genus of Asian leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. Most of the species in the genus are found along the Himalayas in the China and the Indian Subcontinent.[2]

Species in the genus include:[3][1]

Meristata dohrnii (Baly, 1861)
Meristata elongata (Jacoby, 1898)
Meristata fallax (Harold, 1880)
Meristata fraternalis (Baly, 1879)
Meristata pulunini (Bryant, 1952)
Meristata quadrifasciata (Hope, 1831)
Meristata sexmaculata (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844)
Meristata spilota (Hope, 1831) (synonym: Meristata trifasciata (Hope, 1831))

The species Meristata jayarami (Vazirani, 1970) was moved to the genus Leptarthra,[4] and the species Meristata maculata (Bryant, 1954) was moved to the genus Paraspitiella.[5]
References

Beenen, R. (2010). "Galerucinae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 443–491. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
Silfverberg, Hans (1990). "Records of Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from the lndian subcontinent. Part 1". Entomologica Fennica. 1 (4): 201–207.
Kimoto, Shinsaku (2005). "Systematic Catalog of the Chrysomelidae(Coleoptera) from Nepal and Bhutan" (PDF). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A. 3: 13–114.
Bezděk, J. (2012). "Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Oriental and Palaearctic Galerucinae and Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Genus:. 23 (3): 375–418.
Bezděk, J.; Nie, R-E. (2019). "Taxonomical changes and new records of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 22 (3): 655–665. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2019.05.002.