Guide to Palearctic Flea Beetle Genera
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)

Luperomorpha Weise

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Luperomorpha Weise, 1887a:202 (type species L. trivialis Weise, 1887, Far East, by original designation). - Heikertinger, 1924a:32; 1941a:73, 86. - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1939:7. - Maulik, 1926:285, 361. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:860. - Chûjô & Ohno, 1965:1. - Scherer, 1969:48. - Medvedev, 1982:108, 266; 1985:375; 1992:591. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:281. Luperocnemus Fairmaire, 1888:43 (type species L. xanthoderus Fairmaire, 1888, China, by monotypy). - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1939:7 (synonymized). Pushtunaltica Lopatin, 1962:1814 (type species P. klapperichi Lopatin, 1962, Afghanistan, by original designation); 1963:359. - Seeno & Wilcox, 1982:129. - Medvedev, 1985:375 (synonymized).

Distribution: Far East of Palearctic region (southeastern Siberia, Far East, Afghanistan), Oriental region, Australia.

Statistics: 5 species in Palearctic, more than 25 species worldwide.

Host Plants: Mangifera indica (Scherer, 1969).

Diagnosis: Body small to moderate, flat, almost parallel-sided. Color yellow, brown or black, sometimes with dark elytral suture, stripes and/or spots on elytron.
Head hypo-prognathous, small, broadly oval, convex from lateral view. Frontal ridge slightly convex, forming swollen angular T-shaped ridge with apical margin of head capsule. Antennal calli raised, convex, delimited from each other and frontal ridge by distinct furrows, not delimited from vertex by furrow. Orbital line absent. Interantennal space broader than diameter of antennal socket. Clypeus and labrum moderate in length. Eye small. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform; segments 2 and 3 very short, together slightly shorter than segment 4.
Pronotum flat, narrowly explanate laterally, sometimes with lateral rows of short, sparse hair. Procoxal cavity open behind. Intercoxal prosternal process extremely narrow; procoxae tenuously connected.
Elytra flat, parallel-sided, irregularly punctate, with or without humeral callus. Epipleuron wide, subvertical, notably tapering from near middle toward apex.
Metafemur comparatively narrow. Metatibia cylindrical, flat only apically. Metatibial spine usually small, inserted medially. First metatarsal segment comparatively long, as long as following two segments combined.

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