Serraphula Jacoby, 1897

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 : 44

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

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scientific name

Serraphula Jacoby, 1897
status

 

Serraphula Jacoby, 1897 Figs 94251-253362

References.

Jacoby 1897: 556; Maulik 1929: 308; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a; 413; 2010b: 3.

Type species.

Serraphula aenea Jacoby, 1897: 557 (Mashonaland), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Republic of South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern, and Western Cape Provinces) and Zimbabwe (Fig. 362).

Ecology.

Species in this genus are known to be associated with plants in the family Asteraceae ( Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010b).

Notes.

Nineteen species have been described.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

SubFamily

Galerucinae

Tribe

Alticini