Sesquiphaera Bechyne , 1958a

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 : 44

Sesquiphaera Bechyne, 1958a Figs 95, 96254-256363

=Paropsiderma Bechyné, 1958a syn. n.

References.

Bechyné 1958a: 92; Scherer 1961: 275; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 411, 413.

Type species.

Sesquiphaera : Sphaeroderma mashonanum Jacoby, 1900: 252 (Mashonaland: Salisbury), by original designation; Paropsiderma : Sphaeroderma anthrax Brancsik, 1910: 185 (Madagascar), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Madagascar, Namibia, Republic of South Africa (Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and KwaZulu-Natal), Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe (Fig. 363).

Ecology.

No information.

Notes.

There are about ten described species. No significant diagnostic characters distinguish Paropsiderma Bechyné from Sesquiphaera . The following new synonymy is therefore proposed: Sesquiphaera Bechyné, 1958 = Paropsiderma Bechyné, 1958 syn. n. Material examined: Paropsiderma anthrax (Brancsik) (det. J. Bechyné), "Madagascar, Joffreville, 13.V.1953, F. Kaiser", 1 specimen (NHMB).