BiondiMaurizioD’AlessandroPaolaAfrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)Zookeys201220122012253115810.3897/zookeys.253.3414 Malvernia http://species-id.net/wiki/Malvernia Jacoby, 1899bFigs 65211335References.

Jacoby 1899b: 346; Biondi 1998a: 37; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2003: 104; 2010a: 410.

Type species.

Malvernia varicornis Jacoby 1899b: 347 (KwaZulu-Natal, Malvern), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Malawi and the Republic of South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and North-West Province) (Fig. 335).

Ecology.

Malvernia varicornis has been collected on the flowers of Burchellia bubalina (L. f.) Simms (Rubiaceae) (Biondi 1998a).

Notes.

Two known species.

Habitus. 65 Malvernia varicornis Jacoby 66 Manobia africana Laboissière 67 Metroserrapha sp 68 Montiaphthona gedyei (Bryant) 69 Myrcina vandenplaasi Laboissière 70 Neodera fraterna Duvivier 71 Nisotra aruwimiana Weise 72 Notomela fulvicollis Bryant 73 Ntaolaltica antennata Biondi & D’Alessandro.

Morphological characters. 218 Nisotra sp., head and pronotum in dorsal view 219 Notomela viridipennis Bryant, head and pronotum in dorsal view 220 Ditto, elytra in lateral view 221 Ntaolaltica antennata Biondi & D’Alessandro, head and pronotum in dorsal view 222 Ditto, head and pronotum in lateral view 223 Ditto, head in frontal view.

Maps of distribution. 332 Longitarsus Berthold 333 Luperomorpha Weise 334 Lypnea Baly 335 Malvernia Jacoby. 336 Manobia Jacoby 337 Metroserrapha Bechyné.

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