title: Macrocoma rubripes
text: # Macrocoma rubripes
  
  Macrocoma rubripes is a species of leaf beetle from Europe, Asia and possibly North Africa. It was first described by Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss in 1862, as a species of Pseudocolaspis.
  
  ## Subspecies
  
  There are two subspecies of M. rubripes:
  
  * Macrocoma rubripes rubripes: The nominotypical subspecies. It is distributed in the Balkan Peninsula, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria and the Caucasus. It has also been reported from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, and Algeria.
  * Macrocoma rubripes turkmena Lopatin, 1976: Found in Turkmenistan.
  
  Some authors recognise a third subspecies, Macrocoma rubripes balcanica (Apfelbeck, 1912), distributed in Bulgaria and Northern Dobruja.
  
  