Carcharodis Weise, 1910b

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 : 26

Carcharodis Weise, 1910b Figs 25150298

References.

Weise 1910b: 434; Bechyné 1954b: 683; Biondi 2002b: 356; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 405.

Type species.

Chaetocnema rugiceps Baly, 1877: 308 (Madagascar), by subsequent designation by Bechyné (1954b: 683).

Distribution.

Central and Southern Africa, and Madagascar (Fig. 298).

Ecology.

Species of this genus live in moist habitats and are probably associated with plants of the family Cyperaceae (personal data).

Notes.

There are seven known species.