Namibeletica, Bologna & Amore & Pitzalis, 2018

Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, Zootaxa 4373 (1), pp. 1-141 : 8

Subfamily Eleticinae

This subfamily of Meloidae ( Bologna et al. 2008b) is mainly represented in Namibia by the tribe Derideini, genus Iselma . The new genus Namibeletica , a taxon incertae sedis, probably belongs to the tribe Eleticini , which is represented with certainty in Namibia by the genus Eletica Lacordaire , recognized for the first time in this study. Moreover, Bologna (2009) recorded two genera of the tribe Morphozonitini ( Mimiselma Bologna, 2009 and Morphozonitis Pic, 1924 ) from southern Angola (in the Namib Desert and mopane savannah), just close to northern Namibia , which could be found in the extension of the same ecosystems in Namibia .