Serraphula
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Chrysomelidae
Name
Serraphula Jacoby, 1897 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
References
Jacoby 1897[1]: 556; Maulik 1929[2]: 308; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a[3]; 413; 2010b[3]: 3.
Type species
Serraphula aenea Jacoby, 1897: 557 (Mashonaland), designation by monotypy.
Distribution
Republic of South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern, and Western Cape Provinces) and Zimbabwe (Fig. 362).
Ecology
Species in this genus are known to be associated with plants in the family Asteraceae (Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010b[4]).
Notes
Nineteen species have been described.
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
- ↑ Jacoby M (1897) Further contributions to the knowledge of the phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa, including Madagascar. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1897: 527−577.
- ↑ Maulik S (1929) On the structure of the hind femur in halticine beetles. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1929: 305−308.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
- ↑ Biondi M, D’Alessandro P (2010b) Revision of the Afrotropical flea beetle genus Serraphula Jacoby and description of Bechynella, a new genus from Western and Central Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae). Zootaxa 2444: 1-44.
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