Zomba Bryant, 1922b

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 : 47

Zomba Bryant, 1922b Figs 109376

References.

Bryant 1922a: 263; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 417.

Type species.

Zomba gossypii Bryant, 1922a: 264 (Nyasaland: Luchenza; N.W. Rhodesia: Livingstone), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Malawi and Zimbabwe (Fig. 370).

Ecology.

The only species in this genus was collected from Cotton plants, Gossypium sp. ( Malvaceae ) ( Bryant 1922a).

Notes.

Only one species is known. This genus is particularly interesting because it is the only representative of the tribe Monoplatini in the Afrotropical region. This tribe occurs almost exclusively in the Neotropical and southern part of the Nearctic regions. The only exceptions are the genera Zomba and Opisthopygme Blackburn (1896: 41); this last genus is occurring with two species in the Australian region.