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
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Afrocrepis
Bechyne
, 1954b
Figs 4118280
References.
Bechyne
1954b
: 680;
Heikertinger 1925
: 99 (as
Derocrepis
Weise, 1886);
Biondi and
D'Alessandro
2010a
: 403.
Type species.
Crepidodera carinipennis
Jacoby, 1903a: 12 (KwaZulu-Natal, Malvern), by original designation.
Distribution.
Madagascar (!) [Ambalamanankana (NHMB); Perinet (NHMB); Andohahele (BAQ)] and the Republic of South Africa (Fig. 280).
Ecology.
No information.
Notes.
Three species are known.
Crepidodera betiokyensis
Bechyne
(1954a: 46) from Madagascar, erroneously attributed to this genus by
Bechyne
(1964
: 152), was placed in
Afrorestia
Bechyne
(cf.
Scherer 1962b
: 57;
Biondi and
D'Alessandro
2010a
: 403).However, it is here confirmed that this genus does occur in Madagascar.