Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)
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Biondi, Maurizio
Author
D'Alessandro, Paola
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Sjostedtinia Weise, 1910a
Figs 98261-262365
References.
Weise 1910a
: 205;
Bryant 1953
: 162;
Scherer 1963
: 648;
Biondi and
D'Alessandro
2010a
: 413.
Type species.
Sjostedtinia montivaga
Weise, 1910a: 206 (Kilimanjaro: Kibocho), by original designation.
Distribution
.
Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, (Fig. 365).
Ecology.
This genus lives at high altitudes on Kilimanjaro and Mount Elgon.
Sjostedtinia montivaga
has been collected from
Lobelia deckeni
(Asch.) Hemsl. (
Lobeliaceae
) (Weise, 1910a), and
Sjostedtinia fordi
Bryant, 1953 from a
Senecio
sp. (
Asteraceae
) in Uganda (Bryant, 1953), and from a
Lobelia
sp. in Kenya (S. Zoia 2009, pers. comm.).
Notes.
Two species are known.