Epitrix Foudras, 1860

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

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scientific name	Epitrix Foudras, 1860
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Epitrix Foudras, 1860 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.