Decaria Weise, 1895

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 : 29

Decaria Weise, 1895 Figs 32305

=Embolimus Weise, 1902

References.

Weise 1895: 344; 1902b: 303; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2003: 104; 2010a: 406.

Type species.

Decaria : Decaria tricolor Weise, 1895: 344 (Sierra Leone, Bang-Haas), designation by monotypy; Embolimus : Embolimus pauli Weise, 1902b: 304 (Kwai), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Afrotropical region (excluding Madagascar) (Fig. 305).

Ecology.

Decaria is associated mainly with plans from the genera Heliotropium ( Boraginaceae ), Cola ( Sterculiaceae ) and Ocimum ( Lamiaceae ) (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

About twenty species have been described.