Terpnochlorus Fairmaire, 1904

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 : 45

Terpnochlorus Fairmaire, 1904 Figs 102266-267369

Chaloenus Westwood, 1862 (pars)

References.

Fairmaire 1904: 269; Laboissière 1932: 575; Bryant 1927: 615 (as Chaloenus ); Bechyné 1955b: 543; 1960b: 101; Furth and Suzuki 1994: 130; Biondi 2002b: 364; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 414.

Type species.

Terpnochlorus perrieri Fairmaire, 1904: 269 (Madagascar: Soalala), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia, Sierra Leone, and South America (Venezuela and Mexico) (Fig. 369).

Ecology.

This genus lives in moist habitats generally associated with plans from the family Juncaceae ( Biondi 2002b).

Notes.

Two species have been described from the Afrotropical region. Bechynè (1955b) synonymised Chaloenus viridis Bryant ( Bryant 1927) with Terpnochlorus perrieri Fairmaire [ Terpnochlorus perrieri Fairmaire = Chaloenus viridis Bryant ( Bryant 1927)].