Epitrix Foudras, 1860
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Epitrix Foudras, 1860 View in CoL Figs 40180313
=Euplecnema Jacoby, 1906 (synonymized by Scherer 1963)
References.
Foudras 1860: 147; Jacoby 1906: 22; Scherer 1963: 672; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 407.
Type species.
Epitrix : Epitrix atropae Foudras, 1860: 55 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Maulik (1926: 130, 133); Euplecnema : Euplecnema nigrita Jacoby, 1906: 22 (Dunbrody, Cape Colony), designation by monotypy.
Distribution.
All zoogeographical regions (Fig. 313).
Ecology.
The genus Epitrix is mainly associated with plants in the family Solanaceae . Some species can be harmful to plants of economic importance (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).
Notes.
About a dozen species are known from Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Galerucinae |
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Alticini |