Jacobyana Maulik, an Oriental flea beetle genus new for the Afrotropical Region with description of three new species from Central and Southern Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae)

Maurizio Biondi; Paola D'Alessandro

doi:10.3897/zookeys.86.804

Jacobyana Maulik, an Oriental flea beetle genus new for the Afrotropical Region with description of three new species from Central and Southern Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae)

Zookeys. 2011 Mar 19:(86):47-59. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.86.804.

Authors

Maurizio Biondi¹, Paola D'Alessandro

Affiliation

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, University of L'Aquila, 67100 Coppito - L'Aquila, Italy.

Abstract

An Orientalflea beetle genus Jacobyana Maulik, 1926 including 7 species from India, Nepal, Vietnam and Sri Lanka, is reported in the Afrotropical Region for the first time. It is represented there by three new species, Jacobyana bezdekisp. n., Jacobyana centrafricanasp. n., and Jacobyana sudafricanasp. n. Micrographs of male and female genitalia, scanning electron micrographs of some diagnostic morphological characters, a key to identification and distributional data for the new species, are provided.

Keywords: Afrotropical Region; Alticinae; Chrysomelidae; Jacobyana; Oriental Region; new species.