Bechuana Scherer, 1970

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414

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scientific name

Bechuana Scherer, 1970
status

 

Bechuana Scherer, 1970 Figs 18135292

References.

Scherer 1970: 301; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 404.

Type species.

Bechuana nigripes Scherer, 1970: 302 (Free State: Boshof; North-West Province: Vryburg), by original designation.

Distribution.

Republic of South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, North-West Province and Western Cape Provinces) (Fig. 292).

Ecology.

No information.

Notes.

There are two known species. Ochrosis natalensis Jacoby (1906: 17) was attributed to this genus by Biondi and D’Alessandro (2010a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

SubFamily

Galerucinae

Tribe

Alticini