Orthocrepis Weise, 1888

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 : 38-39

Orthocrepis Weise, 1888 Figs 75225-226345

Crepidodera Chevrolat, 1836 (pars)

Hermaeophaga Foudras, 1860 (pars)

Lactica Erichson, 1847 (pars)

References.

Weise 1888: 850; Bechyné 1948a: 4 (as Hermaeophaga ); 1954b: 677; 1955a: 224; 1964: 141; Scherer 1961: 267; 1963: 664; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 411.

Type species.

Haltica ruficollis Lucas, 1849: 546 (Algeria), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Afrotropical (including Madagascar), Oriental and Palaearctic regions (Fig. 345).

Ecology.

The species in this genus are mainly associated with plants in the family Euphorbiaceae , but also with Leguminosae and Malvaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; Pollard 1957).

Notes.

About twenty-five species have been recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa and sixteen from Madagascar.