Alocypha Weise, 1911

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 : 20

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scientific name

Alocypha Weise, 1911
status

 

Alocypha Weise, 1911 Figs 6120282

References.

Weise 1911: 170; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 403.

Type species.

Alocypha litura Weise, 1911: 171 (East Africa: Lindi) [(= Aphthona bimaculata Jacoby, 1903a: 11) (KwaZulu-Natal)], designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Tanzania and Zambia (Fig. 282).

Ecology.

Alocypha bimaculata is a harmful pest of Sesame ( Sesamum indicum L.) ( Pedaliaceae ) crops, particularly in Tanzania ( Mponda et al. 1997).

Notes.

Only one species is known.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae