Manobia Jacoby, 1885

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 : 37

Manobia Jacoby, 1885 Figs 66212336

=Afroalytus Scherer, 1961 (synonymized by Biondi 2001a)

References.

Jacoby 1885: 73; Scherer 1961: 269; 1962a: 54; Biondi 2001a: 648; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 410.

Type species.

Manobia : Manobia nigripennis Jacoby, 1885: 73 (Sumatra), by subsequent designation by Maulik (1926: 285, 407); Afroalytus : Afroalytus kivuensis Scherer, 1961: 269, 286 (Kivu: T. Kalehe, 2850 m), by original designation.

Distribution.

Central, Eastern [Kenya (!), Taita Hills, Ngangao (BAQ)] and Western Africa; Australian, Eastern Palaearctic, and Oriental regions (Fig. 336).

Ecology.

This genus is probably polyphagous and has been reported mainly from the following plant families: Epacridaceae , Urticaceae , Cyatheaceae , Asteraceae and Arecaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

About fifteen species described from Sub-Saharan Africa.