Orthocrepis Weise, 1888
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Orthocrepis Weise, 1888 Figs 75225-226345
Crepidodera Chevrolat, 1836 (pars)
Hermaeophaga Foudras, 1860 (pars)
Lactica Erichson, 1847 (pars)
References.
Weise 1888: 850; Bechyné 1948a: 4 (as Hermaeophaga ); 1954b: 677; 1955a: 224; 1964: 141; Scherer 1961: 267; 1963: 664; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 411.
Type species.
Haltica ruficollis Lucas, 1849: 546 (Algeria), designation by monotypy.
Distribution.
Afrotropical (including Madagascar), Oriental and Palaearctic regions (Fig. 345).
Ecology.
The species in this genus are mainly associated with plants in the family Euphorbiaceae , but also with Leguminosae and Malvaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; Pollard 1957).
Notes.
About twenty-five species have been recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa and sixteen from Madagascar.
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