Hespera Weise, 1889

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

Hespera Weise, 1889 Figs 51195322

=Allomorpha Jacoby, 1892b (synonymized by Maulik 1926)

References.

Weise 1889: 638; Jacoby 1892b: 934; Maulik 1926: 137; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 408.

Type species.

Hespera : Hespera sericea Weise, 1889: 639 (China), by original designation; Allomorpha : Allomorpha sericea Jacoby, 1892b: 934 [Burma (=Myanmar): Carin Chebà], designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Afrotropical (excluding Madagascar), Eastern Palaeartic, and Oriental regions (Fig. 322).

Ecology.

The Afrotropical species of this genus are mainly associated with plants in the families Anacardiaceae and Ericaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; personal data).

Notes.

About thirty species are known from Sub-Saharan Africa.