BiondiMaurizioD’AlessandroPaolaAfrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)Zookeys201220122012253115810.3897/zookeys.253.3414 Stegnaspea http://species-id.net/wiki/Stegnaspea Baly, 1877Figs 100265367References.

Baly 1877: 181; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 414; D’Alessandro et al. 2012: 12.

Type species.

Stegnaspea trimeni Baly, 1877: 182 (Cape of Good Hope), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Republic of South Africa (Western Cape Province) and Tristan da Cunha (Fig. 367).

Ecology.

Stegnaspea trimeni collected from Poaceae (also known as Gramineae) in meadows (D’Alessandro et al. 2012).

Notes.

Six species are known.

Habitus. 92 Sanckia lebisi Bechyné 93 Sanckia (ex Eugonotes Jacoby) longicornis (Jacoby) 94 Serraphula elongata Jacoby 95 Sesquiphaera mashonana (Jacoby) 96 Sesquiphaera (ex Paropsiderma Bechyné) near vadoni (Bechyné) 97 Seychellaltica mahensis (Maulik) 98 Sjostedtinia montivaga Weise 99 Sphaeroderma femoratum Jacoby 100 Stegnaspea trimeni Baly.

Morphological characters. 260 Seychellaltica mahensis (Maulik), pro-, meso- and metasternum 261 Sjostedtinia fordi Bryant, head and pronotum in dorsal view 262 Ditto, hind leg and elytra in dorsal view 263 Sphaeroderma nigripennis Bryant, head and pronotum in dorsal view 264 Sphaeroderma iyengari Bechyné, elytra in lateral view 265 Stegnaspea trimeni Baly, basal part of elytra.

Maps of distribution. 362 Serraphula Jacoby 363 Sesquiphaera Bechyné 364 Seychellaltica Biondi 365 Sjostedtinia Weise 366 Sphaeroderma Stephens 367 Stegnaspea Baly.

BalyJS (1877) Descriptions of new genera of uncharacterized species of Halticinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877: 157−184; 283−323.BiondiMD’AlessandroP (2010a) Genus-group names of Afrotropical flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae): Annotated catalogue and biogeographical notes. Eur. J. Entomol.107: 401-424.