Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)

Maurizio Biondi; Paola D'Alessandro

doi:10.3897/zookeys.253.3414

Caroline Chaboo, Megan Biesele, Robert K. Hitchcock, Andrea Weeks (2016)
Beetle and plant arrow poisons of the Ju|’hoan and Hai||om San peoples of Namibia (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae; Plantae, Anacardiaceae, Apocynaceae, Burseraceae). ZooKeys 558: 9.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.558.5957

Paola D’Alessandro, Mattia Iannella, Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Maurizio Biondi (2021)
Taxonomic revision of the Calotheca parvula species group from southern Africa, with descriptions of three new species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). African Invertebrates 62: 315.

DOI: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.62.62426

Luis Cruces, Eduardo de la Peña, Patrick De Clercq (2020)
Seasonal Phenology of the Major Insect Pests of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) and Their Natural Enemies in a Traditional Zone and Two New Production Zones of Peru. Agriculture 10: 644.

DOI: 10.3390/agriculture10120644

PAOLA D'ALESSANDRO, FABRIZIA URBANI, MAURIZIO BIONDI (2014)
Biodiversity and biogeography in Madagascar: revision of the endemic flea beetle genus NeoderaDuvivier, 1891 with description of 19 new species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). Systematic Entomology 39: 710.

DOI: 10.1111/syen.12082

A M D Muhaimin, M Halim, S A Syarifah Zulaikha, S Yaakop (2019)
Habitat preferences of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) based on abiotic factors: A study from Fraser’s Hill, Pahang, Malaysia. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 269: 012035.

DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/269/1/012035

Maurizio BIONDI, Fabrizia URBANI, Paola D'ALESSANDRO (2015)
Relationships between the geographic distribution of phytophagous insects and different types of vegetation: A case study of the flea beetle genus Chaetocnema (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in the Afrotropical region. European Journal of Entomology 112: 311.

DOI: 10.14411/eje.2015.040

Maurizio Biondi, Roberta Frasca, Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Paola D’Alessandro (2017)
Supraspecific taxonomy of the flea beetle genus Blepharida Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in the Afrotropical Region and description of Afroblepharida subgen. nov.. Insect Systematics & Evolution 48: 97.

DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-48022152

Ebru Gül Aslan, Hassan Ghahari (2017)
An Annotated Synopsis of the Flea Beetles of Iran with New Records (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143: 633.

DOI: 10.3157/061.143.0307

Maurizio Biondi, Paola D’Alessandro, Walter De Simone, Mattia Iannella (2021)
DBSCAN and GIE, Two Density-Based “Grid-Free” Methods for Finding Areas of Endemism: A Case Study of Flea Beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in the Afrotropical Region. Insects 12: 1115.

DOI: 10.3390/insects12121115

Paola D'Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi (2023)
Generic placement of the African flea beetle Polyclada maculipennis Bryant and the possible occurrence of the genus Procalus Clark in sub-Saharan Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). ZooKeys 1145: 181.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1145.90667

Paola D'Alessandro, Mattia Iannella, Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Maurizio Biondi (2022)
Calotheca nigromaculata species-group from sub-Saharan Africa with descriptions of two new species from KwaZulu-Natal (Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). ZooKeys 1084: 119.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1084.73175

Francesco Cerasoli, Paola D’Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi (2022)
Fine-Tuned Ecological Niche Models Unveil Climatic Suitability and Association with Vegetation Groups for Selected Chaetocnema Species in South Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Diversity 14: 100.

DOI: 10.3390/d14020100

Mattia Iannella, Paola D’Alessandro, Walter De Simone, Maurizio Biondi (2021)
Habitat Specificity, Host Plants and Areas of Endemism for the Genera-Group Blepharida s.l. in the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). Insects 12: 299.

DOI: 10.3390/insects12040299

Behzad Pourhossein, Saber Esmaeili, Miklós Gyuranecz, Ehsan Mostafavi (2015)
Tularemia and plague survey in rodents in an earthquake zone in southeastern Iran. Epidemiology and Health 37: e2015050.

DOI: 10.4178/epih/e2015050

Danny Haelewaters, Walter Rossi (2015)
Three new species of Laboulbenia from Roland Thaxter’s backlog of slides and a brief review of Laboulbeniales associated with Chrysomelidae. Mycologia 107: 142.

DOI: 10.3852/14-022

K.D. Prathapan, A.S. Konstantinov (2021)
Revision of Oriental flea beetle genera with subparallel intercoxal ridges on the first abdominal ventrite (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). Journal of Natural History 55: 1521.

DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1933229

Mattia Iannella, Walter De Simone, Francesco Cerasoli, Paola D’Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi (2021)
A Continental-Scale Connectivity Analysis to Predict Current and Future Colonization Trends of Biofuel Plant’s Pests for Sub-Saharan African Countries. Land 10: 1276.

DOI: 10.3390/land10111276

Maurizio Biondi, Fabrizia Urbani, Paola D'Alessandro (2013)
Endemism patterns in the Italian leaf beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). ZooKeys 332: 177.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.332.5339

Maurizio Biondi, Paola D’Alessandro, Francesco Cerasoli, Walter De Simone, Mattia Iannella (2022)
Taxonomy, Habitat Preference, and Niche Overlap of Two Arrow-Poison Flea Beetle Species of the Genus Polyclada in Sub-Saharan Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Insects 13: 668.

DOI: 10.3390/insects13080668

Rui-E Nie, Jan Bezděk, Xing-Ke Yang (2017)
How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). ZooKeys 720: 91.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.720.13517

Maurizio Biondi, Mattia Iannella, Paola D'Alessandro (2024)
Argopistes Motschulsky from Madagascar with descriptions of six new species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). ZooKeys 1202: 303.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1202.122977

Caroline S. Chaboo (2015)
New Distribution Records ofDiamphidia femoralisGerstaecker, 1855 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88: 408.

DOI: 10.2317/0022-8567-88.3.408

Walter De Simone, Mattia Iannella, Paola D’Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi (2020)
Assessing influence in biofuel production and ecosystem services when environmental changes affect plant–pest relationships. GCB Bioenergy 12: 864.

DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12727

Luis Cruces, Eduardo de la Peña, Patrick De Clercq (2020)
Insect diversity associated with quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) in three altitudinal production zones of Peru. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 40: 955.

DOI: 10.1007/s42690-020-00154-3

Maurizio Biondi, Paola D’Alessandro, Mattia Iannella (2022)
Climatic Niche, Altitudinal Distribution, and Vegetation Type Preference of the Flea Beetle Genus Arsipoda in New Caledonia (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Insects 14: 19.

DOI: 10.3390/insects14010019

Michael Schmitt, Pierre Jolivet (2015)
Together with 30 years of Symposia on Chrysomelidae! Memories and personal reflections on what we know more about leaf beetles. ZooKeys 547: 35.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.547.7181

Paweł Jałoszyński, Shûhei Yamamoto, Yui Takahashi (2016)
Scydmobisetia gen. nov., the first definite Glandulariini from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Cretaceous Research 65: 59.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.04.011

PETER G. ALLSOPP, PAUL SCHOOLMEESTERS (2024)
Resolution of some nomenclatural issues in the Cetoniinae, Dynastinae, Hopliinae, Melolonthinae, Pachydeminae and Sericinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Zootaxa 5433: 573.

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5433.4.6

Konstantin S. Nadein, Evgeny E. Perkovsky (2019)
Small and common: the oldest tropical Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the lower Eocene Cambay amber of India. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 43: 597.

DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2019.1622780

Maurizio Biondi, Paola D'Alessandro (2015)
Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). ZooKeys 547: 63.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.547.9375

Daniele Salvi, Paola D’Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi (2019)
Host plant associations in Western Palaearctic Longitarsus flea beetles (Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini): a preliminary phylogenetic assessment. ZooKeys 856: 101.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.856.32430

Maurizio Biondi, Paola D’Alessandro, Mattia Iannella (2023)
Up and down from North to South: Latitudinal Distribution of Flea Beetle Genera in Continental Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). Insects 14: 394.

DOI: 10.3390/insects14040394

Paola D’Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi (2018)
Ugandaltica gen. n., a tiny flea beetle from the forest canopy in Central Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). ZooKeys 746: 123.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.746.23637

Vaylen Hlaka, Maurizio Biondi, Elleunorah Allsopp, Barbara van Asch (2022)
Argopistes sexvittatus and Argopistes capensis (Chrysomelidae: Alticini): Mitogenomics and Phylogeny of Two Flea Beetles Affecting Olive Trees. Genes 13: 2195.

DOI: 10.3390/genes13122195

Abdullah Muhaimin Mohammad Din, Wan Nur Madihah Wan Abd Halim, Salmah Yaakop (2019)
The diversity and richness of leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) at Fraser’s Hill, Pahang, Malaysia. THE 2018 UKM FST POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM: Proceedings of the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Science and Technology 2018 Postgraduate Colloquium 2111: 060001.

DOI: 10.1063/1.5111263