Hildebrandtina Weise, 1910b

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 : 34

Hildebrandtina Weise, 1910b Figs 52196-197323

References.

Weise 1910b: 464; Laboissière 1932: 584; Bechyné 1948b: 99; 1964: 131; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 408.

Type species.

Hildebrandtina variegata Weise, 1910b: 465 (Madagascar), by original designation.

Distribution.

Madagascar (Fig. 323).

Ecology.

No information.

Notes.

This genus, with about ten species known to occur in Madagascar, was transferred from the subfamily Galerucinae to the Alticinae (currently the tribe Alticini ) by Biondi and D’Alessandro (2010a). The reason being the presence of a metafemoral spring, very similar to that described for the Oriental genus Mandarella Duvivier (1892b: 433) (cf. Furth and Suzuki 1994).