Cyaneolytta Péringuey, 1909

Bologna, M. A. & Pinto, J. D., 2002, The Old World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis, Journal of Natural History 36 (17), pp. 2013-2102 : 2058-2059

38. Cyaneolytta Péringuey, 1909

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Type species. Lytta signifrons Fahraeus, 1870 , by subsequent designation (Selander, 1986b) (see Selander, 1991). 31 spp.

Geographic distribution. Afrotropical region (except extreme south-west), S Sahara, SW Arabia, India east to Sikkim.

References

Taxonomy. Mäklin (1875); Haag-Rutenberg (1880 partial key); Péringuey (1909); Kaszab (1953a key and catalogue, 1960b); Bologna (1978); Anand (1979); Saha (1979 key to Indian spp.); Selander (1986a, 1986b annotated catalogue).

Bionomics. Selander (1986b, 1987a); Bouseman (1988); Bologna et al. (1990).

Larvae. Selander (1987a); Bologna et al. (1990).

Physiology. Gäde (1995).

Pharmacology. Cornalia (1865); Théodoridès (1950).

Notes

Pic (1952, 1953) described and cited two species (crambeli and lepineyi) from the Sahel unknown to us. The former was not recognized by Kaszab (1953a) or Selander (1986b); the latter was treated as incertae sedis and not assigned to species group.

Selander (1987a) described the rst instar of a W African species and considered it phoretic and a parasitoid of bees. Bologna et al. (1990) showed considerable polymorphy in the rst-instar larvae of this genus (three types) and noted phoretic behaviour of at least four African species on Carabidae of genera belonging to the tribes Anthiini and Panagaeini . Larvae of several other undetermined Afrotropical and Indian Cyaneolytta , referable to these morphological types, have now been found on additional taxa of ground beetles (Bologna, unpublished).

The phoretic larvae of Cyaneolytta prompted Selander (1987a) to place the genus in the Meloini . Recent phylogenetic analysis (Bologna and Pinto, 2001) nds no support for this and instead tentatively allies the genus with Epicautini .

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