Decaria Weise, 1895
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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.
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