Chirodica Germar, 1834

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 : 28-29

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

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scientific name

Chirodica Germar, 1834
status

 

Chirodica Germar, 1834 Figs 30156-157303

References.

Germar 1834: 2; Baly 1876a: 441; Scherer 1983: 173; Biondi 1998b: 17, 45; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 406.

Type species.

Chirodica chalcoptera Germar, 1834: 16 (Cape of Good Hope), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Namibia and the Republic of South Africa (Fig. 303).

Ecology.

This genus is strictly associated with the plant family Proteaceae (mainly Protea spp. and Leucadendron spp.) ( Biondi 1998b).

Notes.

Eight species have been described.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae