Philopona Weise, 1903

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 : 39

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scientific name

Philopona Weise, 1903
status

 

Philopona Weise, 1903 Figs 78229348

Oedionychus Berthold, 1827 (pars)

References.

Weise 1903: 216; Laboissière 1942: 105; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 411.

Type species.

Oedionychis (?) vernicata Gerstaecker, 1871: 84 (Zanzibar), by original designation.

Distribution.

Afrotropical (excluding Madagascar), Australian, Oriental and Southern-Eastern Palaearctic regions (Fig. 348).

Ecology.

Philopona usambarica Csiki (in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940: 453) collected on Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims ( Acanthaceae ) in Kenya ( Furth 1985).

Notes.

About twenty species known from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

SubFamily

Galerucinae

Tribe

Alticini