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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Carcharodis Weise, 1910b
Figs 25150298
References.
Weise 1910b
: 434;
Bechyne
1954b
: 683;
Biondi 2002b
: 356;
Biondi and
D'Alessandro
2010a
: 405.
Type species.
Chaetocnema rugiceps
Baly, 1877: 308 (Madagascar), by subsequent designation by
Bechyne
(1954b
: 683).
Distribution.
Central and Southern Africa, and Madagascar (Fig. 298).
Ecology.
Species of this genus live in moist habitats and are probably associated with plants of the family
Cyperaceae
(personal data).
Notes.
There are seven known species.