Homichloda Weise, 1902a

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 : 34

Homichloda Weise, 1902a Figs 53198324

=Weiseana Jacoby, 1903a (synonymized by Cox 1997)

References.

Weise 1902a: 165; Jacoby 1903a: 16, 1906: 23 (as Weiseana ); Cox 1997: 939.

Type species.

Homichloda : Homichloda pauli Weise, 1902a: 166 (Kwai), designation by monotypy; Weiseana : Weiseana barkeri Jacoby, 1903: 16 (Natal, Malvern), by original designation.

Distribution.

Kenya, Republic of South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Tanzania and Zambia (Fig. 324).

Ecology.

A genus that has been associated with a variety of Acacia species, trees in the family Fabaceae ( Cox 1997).

Notes.

Three species have been described.