Psylliodes Berthold, 1827

Biondi, Maurizio & D'Alessandro, Paola, 2012, Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), ZooKeys 253, pp. 1-158 : 43

Psylliodes Berthold, 1827 Figs 91248360

References.

Berthold 1827: 401; Biondi 1996: 257; Nadein 2007: 317; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 413; Döberl 2012: 444.

Type species.

Chrysomela chrysocephala Linnaeus, 1758: 372 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Maulik (1926: 144).

Distribution.

Found inall the zoogeographical regions. In the Afrotropical region this genus is known from Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania and Socotra Island (Yemen) (Fig. 360).

Ecology.

Known host plants for this genus fall in the plant families Cruciferae (= Brassicaeae), Solanaceae and Poaceae (also known as Gramineae ) (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

There are seven described species.