Afroaltica Biondi & D'Alessandro , 2007

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 : 19

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414

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scientific name

Afroaltica Biondi & D'Alessandro , 2007
status

 

Afroaltica Biondi & D'Alessandro, 2007 Figs 3113-117279

References.

Biondi and D’Alessandro 2007: 99; 2010a: 402; D’Alessandro and Biondi 2011: 365.

Type species.

Afroaltica subaptera Biondi & D’Alessandro, 2007: 100 (Republic of South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Karkloof area), by original designation.

Distribution.

Republic of South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga) (Fig. 279).

Ecology.

Afroaltica subaptera was collected in an open field on Poaceae (also known as Gramineae ) ( Biondi and D’Alessandro 2007).

Notes.

Two species have been described.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae