Notomela fulvicollis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Notomela
Name
Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931: 255; Bechyné 1960[1]: 32.
Type material examined
Lectotype designation: Durban, Natal, 27-10.22 / feeding on Fagara capensis / Ser. No. 1378 [29°51'29"S, 31°01'09"E], ♂ (M. Biondi des.) (BMNH). Further material studied. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo, Modimolle [24°42'S, 28°24'22"E], 30.xii.2008, M. Snižek leg., 2 specimens (BAQ); North-West Province, Transvaal, road to Potchefstroom, 20 km N of Potchefstroom [26°32'S, 27°00'E], 1500 m, 8.xi.1993, M Bologna leg., 1 specimen (BAQ); Gauteng, Pretoria [25°43'S, 28°17'E], xi.1928, N.K. Munro leg., feeding on leaves of Xanthoxylon capensis, 3 specimens (BMNH); Transvaal, Potchefstroom [26°42'52"S, 27°05'49"E], xii.1952, F. Zumpt leg., 1 specimen (BAQ); Kwazulu-Natal, Ntendeka Wilderness Area, Ngomi Forest, 27°51'S, 31°23'E, 24–27.xi.2006, P. Burlisch leg., 2 specimens (BAQ); Port Natal (= Durban 29°51'29"S, 31°01'09"E], 1 specimen (BMNH); Eastern Cape Province, Pondoland, Port St. Johns [31°37'43"S, 29°31'12"E], ix.1923, R.E. Turner leg., 1 specimen (BMNH).
Distribution
Eastern part of the Republic of South Africa: Limpopo, North-West Province, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Province (Fig. 17). Bechyné (1960[1]: 32) reported this species from the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo belge: Elisabethville [= Lubumbashi 11°40'S, 27°28'E], i.1939, H.J. Bredo), but this record needs further confirmation. Southern-Eastern African chorotype (SEA) (Biondi and D’Alessandro 2006[2]).
Ecological data
Specie reported by Bryant (1931)[3] as feeding on leaves of Zanthoxylum (reported as Fagara) capense (Thunb.) Harv. (Rutaceae) in South East Africa. Preferred ecosystems seem to be warm temperate forest and tropical lowland shrubland.
Taxon Treatment
- Biondi, M; D’Alessandro, P; 2015: Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini) ZooKeys, (547): 63-74. doi
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Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bechyné J (1960) Notes sur les Alticides Africains des collections de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Coleoptera, Phytophaga). Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 36: 1−32.
- ↑ Biondi M, D’Alessandro P (2006) Biogeographical analysis of the flea beetle genus Chaetocnema in the Afrotropical Region: distribution patterns and areas of endemism. Journal of Biogeography 33: 720–730. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01446.x
- ↑ Bryant G (1931) Some new injurious Phytophaga from South Africa. Bulletin Entomological Research 22: 253–257. doi: 10.1017/S0007485300035239