Podagrica Chevrolat, 1836

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 : 41

Podagrica Chevrolat, 1836 Figs 85, 86355

=Neumannia Weise, 1907 (name preoccupied by Neumania Lebert, 1879: 357, Acari, Unionicolidae )

=Podagricina Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940 (new name for Neumannia Weise, 1907) syn. n.

=Podagrixena Bechyné, 1968 (synonymized by Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a)

References.

Chevrolat 1836: 394; Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940: 364; Weise 1907b: 223; Bryant 1942b: 229; Bechyné 1960b: 84; 1968: 1719; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 412.

Type species.

Podagrica : Altica fuscipes Fabricius, 1775: 114 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Maulik, (1926: 273); Neumannia : Balanomorpha aethiopica Chapuis, 1879: 13 (Ethiopia), by present designation; Podagrixena: Podagrica decolorata Duvivier, 1892a: 60 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ibembo), by original designation.

Distribution.

Afrotropical [including Madagascar (!): Nossibé (ZMHB); Ranohira (ZMHB); Tamatave (ZMHB)], Oriental, and Palaearctic regions (Fig. 355).

Ecology.

The species in this genus are mainly associated with plants in the family Malvaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995: 128); some are known to cause damage to cotton crops, Gossypium sp. ( Malvaceae ).

Notes.

About fifty species are known from Sub-Saharan Africa, with one having been recorded from Madagascar. There are no significant diagnostic characters distinguishing Podagricina Csiki from Podagrica . Therefore, the following new synonymy is proposed: Podagrica Chevrolat, 1836 = Podagricina Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki, 1940 syn. n. Type material examined: Balanomorpha aethiopica Chapuis, "Bogos, 1870, Keren, O. Beccari", 4 syntypes (MCSN).