Diamphidia
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Chrysomelidae
Name
Diamphidia Gerstaecker, 1855 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
References
Gerstaecker 1855[1]: 638; Baly 1861[2]: 198; Laboissière 1942[3]: 109; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a[4]: 406.
Type species
Diamphidia femoralis Gerstaecker, 1855: 638 (Sena and Port Natal), designation by monotypy.
Distribution
Central, Eastern, and Southern-Eastern Africa (Fig. 306).
Ecology
A genus associated with shrubs and trees of Commiphora (Burseraceae) (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995[5]; Chaboo et al. 2007[6]).
Notes
Seventeen species are known.
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
Other References
- ↑ Gerstaecker C (1855) Diagnosen der von Peters in Mossambique gesammelten Kafer u. Hymenoptera. Monatsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 636−639.
- ↑ Baly J (1861) Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophaga. Journal of Entomology 1: 193-206.
- ↑ Laboissière V (1942) Exploration du Parc National Albert. Mission G.F. De Witte (1933−1935). Halticinae (Coleoptera Phytophaga). Fam. Chrysomelidae. Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge 39: 3−130.
- ↑ Biondi M, D’Alessandro P (2010a) Genus-group names of Afrotropical flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae): Annotated catalogue and biogeographical notes. Eur. J. Entomol. 107: 401-424.
- ↑ Jolivet P, Hawkeswood T (1995) Host-plants of Chrysomelidae of the World. An essay about the relationships between the leaf-beetles and their food-plants. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 281 pp.
- ↑ Chaboo C, Grobbelaar E, Larsen A (2007) Fecal ecology in Leaf Beetles: Novel records in the African arrow-poison beetles, Diamphidia Gerstaecker and Polyclada Chevrolat (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Coleopt. Bull. 61: 297−309. doi: [297:FEILBN2.0.CO;2 10.1649/0010-065X(2007)61[297:FEILBN]2.0.CO;2]
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