Afrorestia Bechyne , 1959b

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 : 19

Afrorestia Bechyne, 1959b Figs 5119281

References.

Bechyné 1959b: 232; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 403.

Type species.

Crepidodera laeviuscula Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940, 1940: 297 (West Africa), by original designation.

Distribution.

Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe (Fig. 281).

Ecology.

Some species of this genus have been collected from plants in the family Apiaceae in South Africa (personal data).

Notes.

About twenty described species. Crepidodera betiokyensis Bechyné (1954a: 46) from Madagascar, erroneously attributed to Afrocrepis Bechyné by Bechyné (1964: 152), was transferred to this genus (cf. Scherer 1962b: 57; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 403). Crepidodera sjostedti Weise (1910a: 221) from Kilimanjaro was incorrectly attributed to Asiorestia Jacobson, 1925 (a genus that does not occur in the Afrotropical region) by Bechyné (1957: 181). This species was transferred to Afrorestia Bechyné by Biondi and D’Alessandro (2010a: 403).