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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Nisotra Baly, 1864
Figs 71217-218341
=Pseudonisotra
Bechyne
, 1968 (synonymized by
Biondi and
D'Alessandro
2010a
)
References.
Baly 1864
: 437;
Bechyne
1955a
: 220; 1959d: 153; 1960b: 88; 1968: 1719;
Biondi and
D'Alessandro
2010a
: 411.
Type species.
Nisotra
:
Haltica gemella
Erichson, 1834: 275 (Philippines: Luzon), by subsequent designation by
Chapuis (1875
: 42);
Pseudonisotra
:
Crepidodera tosta
Gerstaecker, 1871: 85 (Kenya: Mombasa), by original designation.
Distribution.
Afrotropical (including Madagascar), Australian, Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Fig. 341).
Ecology.
Species in this genus are mainly associated with plants in the family
Malvaceae
(cf.
Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995
).
Notes.
About seventy species of this genus are known to occur in Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa.