Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Alternative combination: Melasoma micropunctata

Full reference: L. Piton. 1935. Taxonomic names, in La faune entomologique des gisements Mio-Pliocènes du Massif Central. Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne (N. S.) 1:65-104

Belongs to Chrysomela according to J. A. Santiago-Blay 1994

See also Piton 1935

Sister taxa: Chrysomela calami, Chrysomela ceresti, Chrysomela debilis, Chrysomela hilberi, Chrysomela lichenis, Chrysomela matheroni, Chrysomela populi, Chrysomela punctigera, Chrysomela rudeli, Chrysomela succini, Chrysomela titana, Chrysomela vesperalis, Lina sociata, Lina wetteravica, Lina populeti

Type specimen: Station Limnologique de Besse 5, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Varennes near Lac Chambon, which is in a Gelasian crater lake horizon in France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Varennes near Lac Chambon

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