Dibolia Latreille, 1829

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

Dibolia Latreille, 1829 Figs 34164-166307

=Haltitarsus Berthold in Latreille 1827 (synonymy reported by Heikertinger and Csiki 1940)

References.

Latreille 1829: 155; Berthold in Latreille 1827: 401; Baly 1876b: 598; Weise 1926: 24 (as Haltitarsus ); Heikertinger and Csiki 1940: 485; Bechyné 1960b: 101; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 406.

Type species.

Dibolia : Haltica occultans Koch, 1803: 22 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Chûjô (1936: 84).

Distribution.

Sub-Saharan Africa (absent in Madagascar); Nearctic, Neotropical and Palaearctic regions (Fig. 307).

Ecology.

A genus associated mainly with plants in the family Lamiaceae , but also with plants in the Scrophulariceae, Asteraceae and Apicaeae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

About twenty species in Sub-Saharan Africa.