Sjostedtinia Weise, 1910a

Biondi, Maurizio & D'Alessandro, Paola, 2012, Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), ZooKeys 253, pp. 1-158 : 44-45

Sjostedtinia Weise, 1910a Figs 98261-262365

References.

Weise 1910a: 205; Bryant 1953: 162; Scherer 1963: 648; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 413.

Type species.

Sjostedtinia montivaga Weise, 1910a: 206 (Kilimanjaro: Kibocho), by original designation.

Distribution.

Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, (Fig. 365).

Ecology.

This genus lives at high altitudes on Kilimanjaro and Mount Elgon. Sjostedtinia montivaga has been collected from Lobelia deckeni (Asch.) Hemsl. ( Lobeliaceae ) (Weise, 1910a), and Sjostedtinia fordi Bryant, 1953 from a Senecio sp. ( Asteraceae ) in Uganda (Bryant, 1953), and from a Lobelia sp. in Kenya (S. Zoia 2009, pers. comm.).

Notes.

Two species are known.