Chabria Jacoby, 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 : 27

Chabria Jacoby, 1887 Figs 27153300

References.

Jacoby 1887: 92; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2012 a: 3.

Type species.

Chabria nigroplagiata Jacoby, 1887: 92 (Sri Lanka: Bogawantalawa), by subsequent designation by Maulik (1926: 312).

Distribution.

Cameroon (probably introduced); Madagascar, and Republic of South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) (probably introduced), Australian and Oriental regions; (Fig. 300).

Ecology.

There is no information for the Afrotropical region. Chabria species were collected on Melastoma ( Melastomataceae ) in Malaysia ( Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995), in cacao plantations [ Theobroma cacao L. ( Malvaceae )] in Sulawesi (Indonesia) ( Medvedev 2008) and in primary forest in Mindanao (Philippines) ( Medvedev 2002).

Notes.

Four species are known from Afrotropical region, one from Sub-Saharan Africa, probably introduced, and three from Madagascar.