Kenialtica Bechyne , 1960b

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 : 35

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Kenialtica Bechyne , 1960b
status

 

Kenialtica Bechyne, 1960b Figs 57204328

=Mediafra Scherer, 1961 (synonymy reported in Seeno and Wilcox 1982)

References.

Bechyné 1960b: 75; Scherer 1961: 266; Seeno and Wilcox 1982: 136; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 409.

Type species.

Kenialtica : Aphthona muhavura Bechyné, 1955a: 207 (Rwanda, East of Muhavura), by original designation; Mediafra : Aphthona muhavura Bechyné, 1955a: 207 (Rwanda, East of Muhavura), by original designation.

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Republic of South Africa (Limpopo), Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leoneand Uganda (!) [Budongo Forest, Sonso (BAQ)] (Fig. 328).

Ecology.

No information.

Notes.

Seven species have been described.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae