Altica Geoffroy, 1762 Figs 7121283

=Haltica Illiger, 1801 (unjustified emendation)

=Graptodera Chevrolat, 1836 (synonymized by Weise 1888)

References.

Geoffroy 1762: 244; Illiger 1801: 138; Chevrolat 1836: 388; Weise 1888: 825; Allard 1889a: 43 (as Graptodera); Bechyné 1954a: 43; 1955a: 209; 1960b: 77; Döberl 2008: 35; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 403.

Type species.

Altica: Chrysomela oleracea Linnaeus, 1758: 372 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Latreille (1810: 432); Graptodera: Chrysomela oleracea Linnaeus, 1758: 372 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Chevrolat (1845: 307).

Distribution.

All zoogeographical regions (Fig. 283).

Ecology.

Polyphagous. This genus has been found associated with herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees belonging to several plant families (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

About fifty species are known from Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa.