Orthocrepis Weise, 1888 Figs 75225-226345

Crepidodera Chevrolat, 1836 (pars)

Hermaeophaga Foudras, 1860 (pars)

Lactica Erichson, 1847 (pars)

References.

Weise 1888: 850; Bechyné 1948a: 4 (as Hermaeophaga); 1954b: 677; 1955a: 224; 1964: 141; Scherer 1961: 267; 1963: 664; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 411.

Type species.

Haltica ruficollis Lucas, 1849: 546 (Algeria), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Afrotropical (including Madagascar), Oriental and Palaearctic regions (Fig. 345).

Ecology.

The species in this genus are mainly associated with plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, but also with Leguminosae and Malvaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; Pollard 1957).

Notes.

About twenty-five species have been recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa and sixteen from Madagascar.