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

Aphthonaltica Heikertinger

Aphthonaltica angustata Click here to see a larger image

Aphthonaltica Heikertinger, 1924a:39 (type species Graptodera angustula Baly, 1878, Japan, by monotypy); 1941a:78, 86. - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1939:99. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:748. - Kimoto, 1966:626. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:324.

Distribution: Japan, China.

Statistics: 1 species in Palearctic, 2 species worldwide.

Host Plants: Akebia guinata, A.trifolia (Takizawa 1994).

Diagnosis: Body small, elongate, more or less convex basally. Color black with metallic lustre, metallic blue or green.
Head oval, convex from lateral view. Frontal ridge wide, short, forming elevated, angular T-shaped ridge with anterior margin of head capsule. Antennal calli raised, triangular, sublongitudinal, broadly connected, well delineated from vertex by furrows. Orbital line present. Interantennal space wider than diameter of antennal socket. Eye small. Clypeus long. Antenna 11 segmented, filiform.
Pronotum more or less narrow, flat, with shallow transverse impression basally. Maximum width before middle. Procoxal cavity open behind. Intercoxal prosternal process more or less narrow. Mesosternum wider.
Elytra ovoid, with well developed humeral calli. Elytral punctures irregularly placed. Epipleuron wide, subvertical, not reaching posterolateral elytral margin.
Metafemur typical. Metatibia cylindrical dorsally flat at apical 1/3. Metatibial spine inserted medially. Metatarsus inserted apically. First metatarsal segment long and thin, almost as long as following three combined.

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