Myrcina Chapuis, 1875

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 : 38

Myrcina Chapuis, 1875 Figs 69216339

=Myrcinella Jacoby, 1901 (synonymized by Bechyné 1964)

=Xenaltica Baly, 1875 (synonymized by Laboissière 1942)

References.

Chapuis 1875: 124, 126; Baly 1875: 25; Jacoby 1901: 301; Laboissière 1942: 50; Bechyné 1964: 150; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 410.

Type species.

Myrcina : Myrcina nigra Chapuis, 1875: 127 (Vieux-Calabar), by original designation; Myrcinella : Myrcina spectabilis Baly, 1878b: 232 (Madagascar), by subsequent designation by Bechyné (1964: 150); Xenaltica : Xenaltica murrayi Baly, 1875: 26 (Old Calabar) (= Myrcina nigra Chapuis, 1875: 127), by present designation.

Distribution.

Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa (absent in the southern part of SAF) (Fig. 339).

Ecology.

Some species of this genus were collected from Spathodea sp. ( Bignoniaceae ) in Eastern Africa (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

Twenty-three species are known.