BiondiMaurizioD’AlessandroPaolaAfrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)Zookeys201220122012253115810.3897/zookeys.253.3414 Amphimela http://species-id.net/wiki/Amphimela Chapuis, 1875Figs 8, 9122284=Cercyonia Weise, 1901 (synonymized by Scherer 1961)=Diboloides Jacoby, 1897 (synonymized by Scherer 1961)=Dibolosoma Jacoby, 1897 (synonymized by Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a)=Halticella Jacoby, 1899b (name preoccupied by HalticellaStephens 1829: 36, Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)=Halticorthaea Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940 (new name for Halticella Jacoby, 1899; synonymized by Scherer 1961)=Halticova Fairmaire, 1898 (synonymized by Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a)=Sphaerophysa Baly, 1876 syn. n.References.

Chapuis 1875: 34; Baly 1875: 27; 1876b: 582; Jacoby 1897: 553, 559; 1899b: 357; Fairmaire 1898: 428; Weise 1901: 303; Maulik 1929: 307 (as Diboloides); Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940: 418; Bechyné 1958c: 10; Scherer 1961: 252; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 403.

Type species.

Amphimela: Amphimela mouhoti Chapuis, 1875: 36 (Indonesia), designation by monotypy; Cercyonia: Cercyonia variabilis Weise, 1901: 303 (Tanzania: Bagamojo, Kunow), designation by monotypy; Diboloides: Diboloides bicolor Jacoby, 1897: 553 (Mashonaland), designation by monotypy; Dibolosoma: Dibolosoma quadripustulatum Jacoby, 1897: 560 (Madagascar: Diego-Suarez), designation by monotypy; Halticella: Halticella flavopustulata Jacoby, 1899b: 357 (Natal, Frere), designation by monotypy; Halticova: Halticova rufoguttata Fairmaire, 1898: 428 (Madagascar), designation by monotypy; Sphaerophysa: Sphaerophysa clavicornis Baly, 1876b: 582 (Madagascar), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Afrotropical (including Madagascar), Australian, Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Fig. 284).

Ecology.

Amphimela bryanti (Csiki in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940) on Bersama sp. (Melianthaceae) in Uganda (Bryant 1936, as Cercyonia quadrinotata Bryant 1936: 218); Amphimela citri (Bryant 1922: 474) cited as a harmful pest of citrus in West Africa (Bryant 1922a).

Notes.

About thirty-five species have been described in the Afrotropical region. Bechyné (1964: 161) established the synonymy between Dibolosoma quadripustulatum Jacoby, 1897 [as 4-punctata (sic!)] and Halticova rufoguttata Fairmaire, 1898; while Weise (1910b: 496) established the synonymy between Sphaerophysa Baly and Dibolosoma Jacoby. Moreover, there are no important diagnostic characters distinguishing Sphaerophysa from Amphimela, this latter characterized by a wide variability in the Afrotropical region. Therefore, the following new synonymy is proposed: Amphimela Chapuis, 1875 = Sphaerophysa Baly, 1876b syn. n. Material examined: Sphaerophysa clavicornis Baly (det. J. Bechyné), “Madagascar, Tananarive”, 2 specimens (NMPC).

Habitus. 2 Abrarius cribrosus Fairmaire 3 Afroaltica subaptera Biondi & D’Alessandro 4 Afrocrepis malvernensis (Jacoby) 5 Afrorestia peringueyi (Jacoby) 6 Alocypha bimaculata (Jacoby) 7 Altica madagascariensis (Allard) 8 Amphimela bryanti (Csiki) 9 Amphimela (ex Sphaerophysa Baly) heikertingeri (Bechyné) 10 Anaxerta castanea Fairmaire.

Morphological characters. 122 Amphimela citri (Bryant), head in frontal view 123 Angulaphthona latipennis (Pic), head and pronotum in dorsal view 124 Ditto, head in frontal view 125 Ditto, elytra in dorsal view 126 Antanemora ghesquierei (Bechyné), head and pronotum in dorsal view 127 Ditto, head in frontal view.

Maps of distribution. 284 Amphimela Chapuis 285 Anaxerta Fairmaire 286 Angulaphthona Bechyné 287 Antanemora Bechyné 288 Aphthona Chevrolat 289 Argopistes Motschulsky.

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