Trachytetra Sharp, 1886

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 : 46

Trachytetra Sharp, 1886 Figs 104268-269371

=Monodaltica Bechyné, 1955b (synonymized by Konstantinov and Prathapan 2008)

References.

Sharp 1886: 448; Bechyné 1955b: 509; Scherer 1962a: 18 (as Monodaltica ); Konstantinov and Prathapan 2008: 413; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 414.

Type species.

Phyllotreta rugulosa Broun, 1880: 636 (New Zealand), by original designation; Monodaltica : Monodaltica guineensis Bechyné, 1955b: 510 (French Guinea), by original designation.

Distribution.

Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Australian, Eastern Palaearctic, and Oriental regions (Fig. 371).

Ecology.

No information.

Notes.

Five species have been described from Sub-Saharan Africa.