Luperomorpha Weise, 1887

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 : 36

Luperomorpha Weise, 1887 Figs 63333

References.

Weise 1887: 202; 1915: 179; Bechyné 1959a: 1; Doguet 1979: 308; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 409; Döberl 2012: 439.

Type species.

Luperomorpha trivialis Weise, 1887: 204 (Siberia: Raddefka; Chingan), by original designation.

Distribution.

Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia (!) [Oromia region (BAQ)],Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, Socotra Island (Yemen) and the Australian, Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Fig. 333).

Ecology.

Polyphagous (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995). There is no ecological information on this genus for the Afrotropical region. Luperomorpha biondii Döberl (2012: 439) was collected in Socotra on Cephalocroton socotranus ( Euphorbiaceae ).

Notes.

Two species have been described for the Afrotropical region: Luperomorpha vittula (Weise, 1915) [described as Jamesonia Jacoby but then transferred to Luperomorpha by Bechyné (1959a)] and Luperomorpha biondii Döberl. Concerning the presence of this genus in the Afrotropical region, we refer to the comments reported for Gabonia Jacoby.