Diamphidia Gerstaecker, 1855

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 : 30

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D383F1BE-76C2-4342-C904-148E5A99A6F1

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Diamphidia Gerstaecker, 1855
status

 

Diamphidia Gerstaecker, 1855 View in CoL Figs 33161-163306

References.

Gerstaecker 1855: 638; Baly 1861: 198; Laboissière 1942: 109; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 406.

Type species.

Diamphidia femoralis Gerstaecker, 1855: 638 (Sena and Port Natal), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Central, Eastern, and Southern-Eastern Africa (Fig. 306).

Ecology.

A genus associated with shrubs and trees of Commiphora ( Burseraceae ) (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; Chaboo et al. 2007).

Notes.

Seventeen species are known.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae

SubFamily

Galerucinae

Tribe

Alticini