Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini) Author Biondi, Maurizio Author D'Alessandro, Paola text ZooKeys 2015 547 63 74 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.547.9375 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.547.9375 1313-2970-547-63 51E9F4CD75E24AC9A8F8514014482F33 51E9F4CD75E24AC9A8F8514014482F33 Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931 Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931: 255; Bechyne 1960 : 32. Type material examined. Lectotype designation: Durban, Natal, 27-10.22 / feeding on Fagara capensis / Ser. No. 1378 [ 29°51'29"S , 31°01'09"E ], ♂ (M. Biondi des.) (BMNH). Further material studied. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo, Modimolle [ 24°42'S , 28°24'22"E ], 30.xii.2008, M. Snizek leg., 2 specimens (BAQ); North-West Province, Transvaal, road to Potchefstroom, 20 km N of Potchefstroom [ 26°32'S , 27°00'E ], 1500 m, 8.xi.1993, M Bologna leg., 1 specimen (BAQ); Gauteng, Pretoria [ 25°43'S , 28°17'E ], xi.1928, N.K. Munro leg., feeding on leaves of Xanthoxylon capensis , 3 specimens (BMNH); Transvaal, Potchefstroom [ 26°42'52"S , 27°05'49"E ], xii.1952, F. Zumpt leg., 1 specimen (BAQ); Kwazulu-Natal, Ntendeka Wilderness Area, Ngomi Forest, 27°51'S , 31°23'E , 24-27.xi.2006, P. Burlisch leg., 2 specimens (BAQ); Port Natal (= Durban 29°51'29"S , 31°01'09"E ], 1 specimen (BMNH); Eastern Cape Province, Pondoland, Port St. Johns [ 31°37'43"S , 29°31'12"E ], ix.1923, R.E. Turner leg., 1 specimen (BMNH). Distribution. Eastern part of the Republic of South Africa: Limpopo, North-West Province, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Province (Fig. 17). Bechyne (1960 : 32) reported this species from the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo belge: Elisabethville [= Lubumbashi 11°40'S , 27°28'E ], i.1939, H.J. Bredo ), but this record needs further confirmation. Southern-Eastern African chorotype (SEA) ( Biondi and D'Alessandro 2006 ). Ecological data. Specie reported by Bryant (1931) as feeding on leaves of Zanthoxylum (reported as Fagara ) capense (Thunb.) Harv. ( Rutaceae ) in South East Africa. Preferred ecosystems seem to be warm temperate forest and tropical lowland shrubland.