Metroserrapha Bechyne , 1958a

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 : 37

Metroserrapha Bechyne, 1958a Figs 67213337

References.

Bechyné 1958a: 86; Doguet 1974: 120; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 410.

Type species.

Metroserrapha prima Bechyné, 1958a: 86 (Mauritius Island), by original designation.

Distribution.

Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands (Fig. 337).

Ecology.

The species in this genus are probably polyphagous, and have been associated mainly with plants in the Ericaceae , Asteraceae and Polygonaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

Seven species are known from the Mascarene Islands and about ten, as yet undescribed, from Madagascar (personal data).