Xanthophysca Fairmaire, 1901

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 : 46

Xanthophysca Fairmaire, 1901 Figs 107273-275374

References.

Fairmaire 1901: 242; Achard 1915: 31; Bechyné 1954a: 46; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 417.

Type species.

Xanthophysca perrieri Fairmaire, 1901: 242 (Madagascar: Saberbieville), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Madagascar (Fig. 374).

Ecology.

No information.

Notes.

Five species have been described. These usually display different colour varieties. Two species from Madagascar, previously included in the genus Blepharida , are here attributed to this genus: Xanthophysca multiguttata (Duvivier, 1891: 242) comb. n. and Xanthophysca insignis (Brancsik, 1897: 130) comb. n.