Manobia
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Chrysomelidae
Name
Manobia Jacoby, 1885 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- =Afroalytus Scherer, 1961 (synonymized by Biondi 2001a[1])
References
Jacoby 1885[2]: 73; Scherer 1961[3]: 269; 1962a: 54; Biondi 2001a[1]: 648; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a[4]: 410.
Type species
Manobia: Manobia nigripennis Jacoby, 1885: 73 (Sumatra), by subsequent designation by Maulik (1926: 285, 407); Afroalytus: Afroalytus kivuensis Scherer, 1961: 269, 286 (Kivu: T. Kalehe, 2850 m), by original designation.
Distribution
Central, Eastern [Kenya (!), Taita Hills, Ngangao (BAQ)] and Western Africa; Australian, Eastern Palaearctic, and Oriental regions (Fig. 336).
Ecology
This genus is probably polyphagous and has been reported mainly from the following plant families: Epacridaceae, Urticaceae, Cyatheaceae, Asteraceae and Arecaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995[5]).
Notes
About fifteen species described from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Biondi M (2001a) New flea beetle genus and species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Alticinae) from Central Africa. Can. Entomol. 133: 643−649. doi: 10.4039/Ent133643-5
- ↑ Jacoby M (1885) Descriptions of new genera and species of phytophagous coleoptera from the Oriental and Austro-Malayan subregions, contained in the Genoa Civic Museum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (serie 2a) 2: 20−76.
- ↑ Scherer G (1961) Bestimmungsschlussel der Alticinen-Genera Afrikas. Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 12: 251−288.
- ↑ 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.
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