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General appearance: 3: Acrocrypta philippina Döberl, 2001; 4: Am phimela mouhoti Chapuis, 1875; 5: Euphitrea micans Baly, 1875; 6: Chabria angulicollis (Clark, 1865); 7: Sphaerometopa acroleuca Wiedem., 1819; 8: Erys tus banksi Weise, 1910; 9: Pentamesa trifasciata Chen, 1935; 10: Sphaeroderma testaceum (Fabricius, 1775) (courtesy of A. Bukejs from www.zin.ru/Animalia/ Coleoptera/); 11: Argopus unicolor Motschulsky, 1860 (courtesy of M.E. Smirnov from www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/); 12: Bhamoina varipes (Jacoby, 1884); 13: Agropistes biplagiatus Motschulsky; 14: Argopistes sp. (Australia); 15: Argopistes udege Konstantinov; 16, 17: Dibolia femoralis, ventral view (16) and dorsal view (17); 18: Megistops fenestra; 19: Paradibolia coerulea.
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A cladistic analysis of 14 genera of hemispheric flea beetles based on adult morphological characters is presented. A multiple origin of hemispheric body shape is concluded. The phylogenetic position of the hemispheric genus Argopistes Motschulsky, 1860 is studied and its attribution to the subtribe Diboliina is proposed. A phylogenetic analysis of...
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... The modified metatibiae and spurs are known only for the few genera of Alticini, and represented by the subapical position of the spur in e.g. Psylliodes Berthold, 1827 and Argopistes Motschulsky, 1860, bifid spur in Dibolia Latreille, 1829 and related genera (Nadein, 2015), a very long and serrate spur of Serraphula Jacoby, 1897 (Biondi and D'Alessandro, 2010), and in the extreme case a very long spur and very short tibia in the genus Aphthonoides Jacoby, 1885 (D€ oberl, 2005). The modifications of the metatibial spur in the Galerucini are unknown (Mohamedsaid and Furth, 2011). ...
The new tribe Taimyralticini trib. nov., new genus Taimyraltica gen. nov. and new species Taimyraltica calcarata sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) are described from Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Taimyr amber of northern Siberia (Yantardakh locality). The new genus shares characters with genera of the tribe Alticini (small size, transverse antebasal groove on pronotum, regular punctate-striate elytra) and the Galerucini (narrow, non-swollen metafemora). A possible apomorphy of the new genus and tribe is a large and acute metatibial spur, erect and oriented transversely to the longitudinal axis of tibia. This character state is unknown in recent and fossil genera of Galerucinae. Early evolution and divergence of leaf beetles are discussed, and a Jurassic and Early Cretaceous subfamily radiation is proposed. Fossil galerucines are reviewed. The oldest Phyllotreta is recorded from the lower Miocene of Izarra (Spain). Our findings show an extreme rarity of Phytophaga in Taimyr amber from Yantardakh. Absence of Phytophaga was recorded earlier at Obeschayuschiy (Santonian-Campanian of the Magadan Region) and compared with their much larger share in Khetana (north of Khabarovsk Krai); we find nearly the same differences between Taimyr amber from Yantardakh and Canadian amber. In Obeschayuschiy this appears due to the Mesophytic character of the flora. It is assumed that the Santonian amber gymnosperm forest of the Khatanga Basin had the same character.
... Alticini, known as flea beetles, is a very large and diverse tribe of leaf beetles within the subfamily Galerucinae according to the current classification of Chrysomelidae (Bouchard et al., 2011), with about 8,000 recognized species placed in more than 500 genera (Biondi & D'Alessandro, 2012;Nadein, 2015).This tribe of beetles (closely related to Galerucini) is distributed worldwide, mainly occurring in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia and South America (Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996;Santiago-Blay, 2004). They are mostly small, well known as phytophagous, whose thickened hind femora are generally used by taxonomists to distinguish this group from others. ...
Lythraria Bedel is a monotypic genus of leaf beetles in the tribe Alticini (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), with its
unique species Lythraria salicariae (Paykull, 1800) distributed across the Palearctic ecozone. Lythraria salicariae was recorded for the first time from Turkey during field sampling conducted in olive grove areas of various regions in the Antalya Province. A total of 26 flea beetle species classified in 10 genera were collected by beating from olive trees, including L. salicariae. This contribution adds taxonomic and zoogeographic knowledge about L. salicariae, and brings the actual number of flea beetle species reported in Turkey to 345 across 23 genera.
