Polyclada Chevrolat, 1836

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 : 42

Polyclada Chevrolat, 1836 Figs 87240-241356

=Cladocera Hope, 1840 (synonymy reported in Achard 1922)

=Cladotelia Kolbe, 1894 (synonymy reported in Achard 1922)

References.

Chevrolat 1836: 375; Hope 1840: 169; Baly 1861: 198; Kolbe 1894: 86; Achard 1922: 4; Medvedev 1996: 261; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 413.

Type species.

Polyclada : Clythra pectinicornis Olivier, 1789: 31 (Africa), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Sub-Saharan Africa (absent in the south-western part of SAF and Madagascar), Saudi Arabia, and Yemen (Fig. 356).

Ecology.

This genus is generally associated with plants in the family Anarcadiaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; Chaboo et al. 2007).

Notes.

Sixteen species have been described.