Lypnea Baly, 1876a

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 : 36-37

Lypnea Baly, 1876a Figs 64209-210334)

=Escaleriella Weise, 1907 (synonymized by Scherer 1961)

=Poephila Weise, 1895 (name preoccupied by Poephila Gould 1842: 93 [pl.], Aves , Estrildidae )

=Poephilina Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki, 1940 (new name for Poephila Weise, 1895; synonymized by Bechyné 1968)

References.

Baly 1876a: 446; Weise 1895: 342; 1907a: 396; Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940: 349; Bechyné 1960a: 15; 1968: 1717−1718; Scherer 1961: 267; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 409.

Type species.

Lypnea : Lypnea flava Baly, 1876a: 446 (New Guinea, Batchian), designation by monotypy; Escaleriella : Escaleriella marginata Weise, 1907: 398 [Spa nish Guinea (= Equatorial Guinea)], by present designation; Poephila : Poephila lacessita Weise, 1895: 342 (Addah), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Afrotropical (including Madagascar), Australian, Eastern Palaearctic, and Oriental regions (Fig. 334).

Ecology.

Lypnea flaveola (Bryant, 1944) collected on Oncoba echinata Oliver ( Flacourtiaceae ) ( Bryant 1944b, as Poephila ).

Notes.

About ten species are known from Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa. Bechyné (1968: 1718) considered Escaleriella Weise and Lypnea Baly to be separate genera because of the difference in the shape of their elytral epipleura: expanded in Lypnea , but straight and narrow in Escaleriella .