Hemipyxis 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 : 33

Hemipyxis Chevrolat, 1836 Figs 50192-194321

=Sebaethe Baly, 1864 (synonymized by Monrós and Bechyné 1956)

Asphaera Chevrolat, 1843 (pars)

References.

Chevrolat 1836: 387; 1843: 227; Baly 1864: 438; Monrós and Bechyné 1956: 1134; Bechyné 1958b: 193; 1960b: 110; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 408.

Type species.

Hemipyxis : Haltica troglodytes Olivier, 1808: 700 (India), by subsequent designation by Chevrolat (1845: 6); Sebaethe : Haltica badia Erichson, 1834: 274 (Philippines), by original designation.

Distribution.

Afrotropical (excluding Madagascar), Australian, Eastern Palaearctic, and Oriental regions (Fig. 321).

Ecology.

Polyphagous. This genus has been associated with herbaceous plants and shrubs belonging to many plant families (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

About thirty species are known from Sub-Saharan Africa. Six species of Hemipyxis , known from Madagascar, are here transferred to the genus Pseudadorium Fairmaire (see Notes in Pseudadorium ).