Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini) Author Biondi, Maurizio Author D'Alessandro, Paola text ZooKeys 2012 253 1 158 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414 1313-2970-253-1 Lypnea Baly, 1876a Figs 64209-210334) =Escaleriella Weise, 1907 (synonymized by Scherer 1961 ) =Poephila Weise, 1895 (name preoccupied by Poephila Gould 1842 : 93 [pl.], Aves , Estrildidae ) =Poephilina Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki, 1940 (new name for Poephila Weise, 1895; synonymized by Bechyne 1968 ) References. Baly 1876a : 446; Weise 1895 : 342; 1907a: 396; Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940 : 349; Bechyne 1960a : 15; 1968: 1717−1718; Scherer 1961 : 267; Biondi and D'Alessandro 2010a : 409. Type species. Lypnea : Lypnea flava Baly, 1876a: 446 (New Guinea, Batchian), designation by monotypy; Escaleriella : Escaleriella marginata Weise, 1907: 398 [Spa nish Guinea (= Equatorial Guinea)], by present designation; Poephila : Poephila lacessita Weise, 1895: 342 (Addah), designation by monotypy. Distribution. Afrotropical (including Madagascar), Australian, Eastern Palaearctic, and Oriental regions (Fig. 334). Ecology. Lypnea flaveola (Bryant, 1944) collected on Oncoba echinata Oliver ( Flacourtiaceae ) ( Bryant 1944b , as Poephila ). Notes. About ten species are known from Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa. Bechyne (1968: 1718) considered Escaleriella Weise and Lypnea Baly to be separate genera because of the difference in the shape of their elytral epipleura: expanded in Lypnea , but straight and narrow in Escaleriella .