Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931

Biondi, Maurizio & D'Alessandro, Paola, 2015, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), ZooKeys 547, pp. 63-74 : 67-68

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931

Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931: 255; Bechyné 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. Snižek 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). Bechyné (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.