Subfamily Eleticinae

This subfamily of Meloidae (Bologna et al. 2008b) is mainly represented in Namibia by the tribe Derideini, genus Iselma . The new genus Namibeletica, a taxon incertae sedis, probably belongs to the tribe Eleticini, which is represented with certainty in Namibia by the genus Eletica Lacordaire, recognized for the first time in this study. Moreover, Bologna (2009) recorded two genera of the tribe Morphozonitini ( Mimiselma Bologna, 2009 and Morphozonitis Pic, 1924) from southern Angola (in the Namib Desert and mopane savannah), just close to northern Namibia, which could be found in the extension of the same ecosystems in Namibia .