BiondiMaurizioD’AlessandroPaolaAfrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)Zookeys201220122012253115810.3897/zookeys.253.3414 Diamphidia http://species-id.net/wiki/Diamphidia Gerstaecker, 1855Figs 33161–163306References.

Gerstaecker 1855: 638; Baly 1861: 198; Laboissière 1942: 109; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 406.

Type species.

Diamphidia femoralis Gerstaecker, 1855: 638 (Sena and Port Natal), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Central, Eastern, and Southern-Eastern Africa (Fig. 306).

Ecology.

A genus associated with shrubs and trees of Commiphora (Burseraceae) (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995; Chaboo et al. 2007).

Notes.

Seventeen species are known.

Habitus. 29 Chaillucola formicicornis Bechyné 30 Chirodica chalcoptera Germar 31 Collartaltica cryptostoma Bechyné 32 Decaria abdominalis Jacoby 33 Diamphidia nigroornata Stål 34 Dibolia bimaculata Jacoby 35 Dimonikaea descarpentriesi Bechyné 36 Diphaulacosoma laevipenne Jacoby 37 Djallonia maindra Bechyné.

Morphological characters. 158 Collartaltica tenebrosa (Laboissière), head and pronotum in dorsal view 159 Ditto, head in ventral view 160 Ditto, prosternum 161 Diamphidia femoralis Gerstaecker, left antenna in dorsal view 162 Ditto, mesotarsus 163 Diamphidia nigroornata Stål, hind leg and elytral punctation.

Maps of distribution. 302 Chaillucola Bechyné 303 Chirodica Germar 304 Collartaltica Bechyné 305 Decaria Weise 306 Diamphidia Gerstaecker 307 Dibolia Latreille.

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