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 text ZooKeys 2012 253 1 158 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414 1313-2970-253-1 Podagrica Chevrolat, 1836 Figs 85, 86355 =Neumannia Weise, 1907 (name preoccupied by Neumania Lebert, 1879: 357, Acari, Unionicolidae ) =Podagricina Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940 (new name for Neumannia Weise, 1907) syn. n. =Podagrixena Bechyne , 1968 (synonymized by Biondi and D'Alessandro 2010a ) References. Chevrolat 1836 : 394; Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940 : 364; Weise 1907b : 223; Bryant 1942b : 229; Bechyne 1960b : 84; 1968: 1719; Biondi and D'Alessandro 2010a : 412. Type species. Podagrica : Altica fuscipes Fabricius, 1775: 114 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Maulik, (1926: 273); Neumannia : Balanomorpha aethiopica Chapuis, 1879: 13 (Ethiopia), by present designation; Podagrixena: Podagrica decolorata Duvivier, 1892a: 60 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ibembo), by original designation. Distribution. Afrotropical [including Madagascar (!): Nossibe (ZMHB); Ranohira (ZMHB); Tamatave (ZMHB)], Oriental, and Palaearctic regions (Fig. 355). Ecology. The species in this genus are mainly associated with plants in the family Malvaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995 : 128); some are known to cause damage to cotton crops, Gossypium sp. ( Malvaceae ). Notes. About fifty species are known from Sub-Saharan Africa, with one having been recorded from Madagascar. There are no significant diagnostic characters distinguishing Podagricina Csiki from Podagrica . Therefore, the following new synonymy is proposed: Podagrica Chevrolat, 1836 = Podagricina Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki, 1940 syn. n. Type material examined: Balanomorpha aethiopica Chapuis, "Bogos, 1870, Keren, O. Beccari", 4 syntypes (MCSN).