Drakensbergianella Biondi & D'Alessandro , 2003

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 : 31

Drakensbergianella Biondi & D'Alessandro, 2003 Figs 38173-175311

References.

Biondi and D’Alessandro 2003: 100; 2010a: 406.

Type species.

Drakensbergianella rudebecki Biondi and D’Alessandro, 2003: 100 (Republic of South Africa, Drakensberg), designation by monotypy.

Distribution. Republic of South Africa (Free State and KwaZulu-Natal) (Fig. 311).

Ecology.

Drakensbergianella rudebecki is the only species in this genus. It lives in alpine meadows (> 2,000 m) on the Drakensberg and was collected on the inflorescences of Senecio and Helichrysum ( Asteraceae ) ( Biondi and D’Alessandro 2003).

Notes.

A single species has been described.