Diamphidia Gerstaecker, 1855

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 : 30

Diamphidia Gerstaecker, 1855 Figs 33161-163306

References.

Gerstaecker 1855: 638; Baly 1861: 198; Laboissière 1942: 109; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 406.

Type species.

Diamphidia femoralis Gerstaecker, 1855: 638 (Sena and Port Natal), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Central, Eastern, and Southern-Eastern Africa (Fig. 306).

Ecology.

A genus associated with shrubs and trees of Commiphora ( Burseraceae ) (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; Chaboo et al. 2007).

Notes.

Seventeen species are known.