Phyllotreta Chevrolat, 1836

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 : 39-40

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414

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scientific name

Phyllotreta Chevrolat, 1836
status

 

Phyllotreta Chevrolat, 1836 Figs 80231350

References.

Chevrolat 1836: 391; Bryant 1942a: 145; Heikertinger 1943: 33; Bechyné 1955c: 61; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 412.

Type species.

Chrysomela brassicae Fabricius, 1787: 78 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Chevrolat (1845: 6).

Distribution.

All zoogeographical regions (Fig. 350).

Ecology.

A genus that has mainly been associated with plants in the families Cruciferae (= Brassicaceae ), Resedaceae , and Capparidaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

About forty species are known from the Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae