Phyllotreta Chevrolat, 1836 Figs 80231350

References.

Chevrolat 1836: 391; Bryant 1942a: 145; Heikertinger 1943: 33; Bechyné 1955c: 61; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 412.

Type species.

Chrysomela brassicae Fabricius, 1787: 78 (Europe), by subsequent designation by Chevrolat (1845: 6).

Distribution.

All zoogeographical regions (Fig. 350).

Ecology.

A genus that has mainly been associated with plants in the families Cruciferae (= Brassicaceae), Resedaceae, and Capparidaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

About forty species are known from the Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar and Sub-Saharan Africa.