Malvernia Jacoby, 1899b

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 : 37

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scientific name	Malvernia Jacoby, 1899b
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Malvernia Jacoby, 1899b Figs 65211335

References.

Jacoby 1899b: 346; Biondi 1998a: 37; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2003: 104; 2010a: 410.

Type species.

Malvernia varicornis Jacoby 1899b: 347 (KwaZulu-Natal, Malvern), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Malawi and the Republic of South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and North-West Province) (Fig. 335).

Ecology.

Malvernia varicornis has been collected on the flowers of Burchellia bubalina (L. f.) Simms ( Rubiaceae ) ( Biondi 1998a).

Notes.

Two known species.