Longitarsus Berthold, 1827

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

Longitarsus Berthold, 1827 Figs 62208332)

References.

Berthold 1827: 401; Bechyné 1958c: 8; 1960b: 55; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2008b: 719; 2010a: 409.

Type species.

Chrysomela atricilla Linnaeus 1761: 166 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Maulik (1926: 333).

Distribution.

All zoogeographical regions (Fig. 332).

Ecology.

This genus is polyphagous and has been associated with several plant families, particularly the Boraginaceae , Asteraceae , Lamiaceae and Scrophulariaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; personal data).

Notes.

Over one hundred species known from Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa (personal data).