Gaberella

{{short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Africa}}

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| taxon = Gaberella costata

| display_parents = 3

| parent_authority = Selman, 1965{{cite journal|first=B. J.|last=Selman|year=1965|title=A revision of the Nodini and a key to the genera of Eumolpidae of Africa (Coleoptera: Eumolpidae)|url=https://archive.org/download/biostor-86049/biostor-86049.pdf|journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology|volume=16|issue=3|pages=141–174|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.21864}}

| authority = (Baly, 1878){{cite journal|last=Baly|first=J. S.|year=1878|title=Diagnosis of a new genus and some undescribed species of African Phytophaga|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8951681|journal=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine|volume=14|pages=177–179|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.22827}}

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms =

  • Menius costatus Baly, 1878
  • Rhembastus sjoestedti Jacoby, 1903

}}

Gaberella is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae, found in Africa.{{cite web|title=Gaberella|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Gaberella.html|website=African Eumolpinae site|access-date=28 June 2018}} It contains only one species, Gaberella costata, found in Sudan, Uganda, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,{{cite web|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/DemRepCongo.html|title=African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo|publisher=chrysomelidae.it|access-date=November 20, 2015}} Cameroon, Bioko and Ivory Coast.{{cite journal|last=Selman|first=B. J.|year=1973|title=Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)|url=http://bionames.org/references/ff43482cd46240c4944ee93163a6b26f|journal=Notulae Entomologicae|volume=53|issue=4|pages=159–166}}{{cite journal|last=Zoia|first=S.|year=2017|title=The Eumolpinae of São Thomé, Príncipe & Bioko Islands from the collections of the Museo civico di Storia naturale "G. Doria", Genoa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/Chrysomelidae/pubblicazioni-pdf-scaricabili/Zoia%202017%20Eumolpinae%20Sao%20Thom%C3%A9%20Bioko%20Principe.pdf|journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova|volume=110|pages=325–398}} This species was first described by Joseph Sugar Baly in 1878, and was originally placed in Menius.

==References==

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Category:Eumolpinae

Category:Beetles of Africa

Category:Beetles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Category:Insects of Cameroon

Category:Insects of the Republic of the Congo

Category:Insects of Uganda

Category:Insects of Sudan

Category:Monotypic Chrysomelidae genera

Category:Insects of West Africa

Category:Insects of Equatorial Guinea

Category:Fauna of Bioko

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