Bikasha

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Taxonavigation

Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Chrysomelidae

Name

Bikasha Maulik, 1931 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile

References

Maulik 1931: 256; Konstantinov and Prathapan 2008: 387; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 404.

Type species

Bikasha tenuipunctata Maulik, 1931: 257 (Seychelles), by original designation.

Distribution

Burundi (!) [Kibira National Park (BAQ)], Democratic Republic of the Congo (!) [Kivu, Mbingi (BAQ)], Kenya (!) [Mt. Kenya (BAQ); Kikuyu (BAQ)], Madagascar (!) [NW of Ranomafana (ZMHB); Andasibe (BAQ)], Malawi (!) [Dedza (BAQ)], Republic of South Africa (!) (KwaZulu-Natal, 17 km NE of Empangeni (MZLU)], Rwanda (!) [Nyungwe National Park, Pindura (BAQ)]; Seychelles, Sierra Leone (!) [Bumbuna (BAQ); S of Freetown (MZLU)], Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Fig. 295).

Ecology

In Seychelles, Bikasha tenuipunctata Maulik and Bikasha fortipunctata Maulik (1931: 258) were collected in forest, and Bikasha minor Maulik (1931: 259) in wet coastal meadows.

Notes

About ten species are known from the Afrotropical region (personal data).

Taxon Treatment

• Biondi, M; D’Alessandro, P; 2012: Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini) ZooKeys, 253: 1-158. doi

Images

Figures 20–28. Habitus. 20 Bezdekaltica socotrana Döberl 21 Bikasha tenuipunctata Maulik 22 Biodontocnema brunnea Biondi 23 Blepharida ornata Baly 24 Buphonella nigroviolacea (Allard) (genus transferred to Galerucini) 25 Carcharodis rugiceps (Baly). 26 Celisaltica ruwenzorica Biondi 27 Chabria bezanozana Biondi & D’Alessandro 28 Chaetocnema purpurea Jacoby.  Figures 134–139. Morphological characters. 134 Bangalaltica antennalis Bechyné, head and right antenna in dorsal view 135 Bechuana nigripes Scherer, sublateral depression on pronotum 136 Bechynella pallens (Bechyné), head in frontal view 137 Ditto, hind tibia and metatarsus 138 Bezdekaltica socotrana Döberl, elytra in dorsal view 139 Bikasha fortipunctata Maulik, head in frontal view.  Figures 140–145. Morphological characters. 140 Bikasha fortipunctata Maulik, hind leg and elytra in lateral view 141 Biodontocnema brunnea Biondi, head in frontal view 142 Ditto, distal half of hind tibia and metatarsus 143 Ditto, hind tibial socket 144 Ditto, dentiform process (white arrow) in inner apical side of hind tibiae 145 Ditto, ventral parts.  Figures 290–295. Maps of distribution. 290 Argopistoides Jacoby 291 Bangalaltica Bechyné 292 Bechuana Scherer 293 Bechynella Biondi & D’Alessandro 294 Bezdekaltica Döberl 295 Bikasha Maulik.