Argopistoides Jacoby, 1892b

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 : 22

Argopistoides Jacoby, 1892b Figs 16133290

=Torodera Weise, 1902a (synonymized by Medvedev 2009)

References.

Jacoby 1892b: 932; Weise 1902a: 163; Scherer 1987: 67 (as Torodera ); Biondi 1994 (as Torodera ): 437; Medvedev 2009: 40; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 404 (as Torodera ).

Type species.

Argopistoides septempunctata Jacoby, 1892b: 932 [Burma (=Myanmar): Carin Chebà], designation by monotypy; Torodera : Torodera octomaculata Weise, 1902a: 164 (Kwai), by subsequent designation by Scherer (1987:67).

Distribution.

Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Rwanda (!) [Nyungwe National Park, Kamiranzovu (BAQ)], Republic of South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Oriental region (Fig. 290).

Ecology.

Genus reported from Poaceae (also known as Gramineae ) ( Oryza ) in Kenya [cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995 (as Torodera )].

Notes.

The Afrotropical region has four described species.