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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Luperomorpha Weise, 1887
Figs 63333
References.
Weise 1887
: 202; 1915: 179;
Bechyne
1959a
: 1;
Doguet 1979
: 308;
Biondi and
D'Alessandro
2010a
: 409;
Doeberl
2012
: 439.
Type species.
Luperomorpha trivialis
Weise, 1887: 204 (Siberia: Raddefka; Chingan), by original designation.
Distribution.
Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia (!) [Oromia region (BAQ)],Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, Socotra Island (Yemen) and the Australian, Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Fig. 333).
Ecology.
Polyphagous (cf.
Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995
). There is no ecological information on this genus for the Afrotropical region.
Luperomorpha biondii
Doeberl
(2012: 439) was collected in Socotra on
Cephalocroton socotranus
(
Euphorbiaceae
).
Notes.
Two species have been described for the Afrotropical region:
Luperomorpha vittula
(Weise, 1915) [described as
Jamesonia
Jacoby but then transferred to
Luperomorpha
by
Bechyne
(1959a)
] and
Luperomorpha biondii
Doeberl
. Concerning the presence of this genus in the Afrotropical region, we refer to the comments reported for
Gabonia
Jacoby.