Micromolpus


Micromolpus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in New Guinea, New Ireland and questionably New Britain. It resembles the genus Rhyparida, but differs from it by being minute in size, lacking a "Y"-shaped suture on the frontoclypeus, having a constricted vertex, and having a strongly convex pronotum, and being strongly punctured only along borders. The name of the genus refers to "a small eumolpine beetle".

Species

Micromolpus dodonaeae Gressitt, 1969 – Papua New Guinea Micromolpus pipturi Gressitt, 1969 – Western New Guinea: Highland Papua, Papua New Guinea Micromolpus submetallica Gressitt, 1969 – New Ireland, New BritainMicromolpus triumfettae Gressitt, 1969 – Western New Guinea: Central Papua, Papua New Guinea