Guide to Palearctic Flea Beetle Genera
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Previous Genus Generic Desciptions Next Genus
Lythraria Bedel
habitus illustration of Lythraria salicariae

Lythraria salicariae
Click here to see a larger image

  • Lythraria Bedel, 1897:168, 179 (type species
    Galeruca salicariae Paykull, 1800, Europe, by monotypy). - Heikertinger, 1924a:37; 1950:39. - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1939:276. - Kaszab, 1962:360. - Kimoto, 1965:427. - Shapiro, 1965:454. - Mohr, 1966:238. - Medvedev, 1982:117, 238. - Gruev & Tomov, 1986:250. - Lopatin, 1986:100. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:326.
  • Paraphthonomorpha Ohno, 1960:69 (type species P.komiyamai Ohno, 1960 = Lythraria salicariae Paykull, 1800, Japan, by monotypy ). - Kimoto, 1965:427 (synonymized).

Distribution: Europe, Caucasus, Siberia, Russian Far East, Japan.

Statistics: Single species.

Host Plants: Lysimachia vulgaris, L.punctata, L.japonica, L.fortunei, Lythrum salicaria (Kimoto, 1965; Medvedev & Roginskaya 1988).

Diagnosis: Body small, oval. Color yellow or light brown; elytral suture dark.
Head small, almost prognathous, forming angle at basal part of frontal ridge (lateral view). Frontal ridge comparatively wide between antennal sockets, narrow apically, not forming distinct T-shaped ridge with anterior margin of head capsule. Antennal calli raised, triangular, broadly connected, not delimited from vertex by furrows. Orbital line present. Eye small. Clypeus and labrum comparatively long. Interantennal space wider than diameter of antennal socket. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum narrower than elytral base, convex from lateral view, narrowly explanate laterally, without any impressions. Procoxal cavity closed behind. Intercoxal prosternal process narrow, explanate apically. Mesosternum wide.
Elytra oval, convex, with weakly developed humeral calli. Elytral punctures arranged in striae disappearing toward apices; interspaces flat. Epipleuron subvertical, notably tapering apically.
Metafemur typical. Metatibia thin, cylindrical, flat only at apex. Metatibial spine absent. First metatarsal segment comparatively short, as short as following two combined.

Alticinae generic key icon Alticinae generic index icon

 Alticinae morphology icon

 Alticinae host plant icon

 Alticinae overview icon

 Alticinae literature icon
Generic
Key 		Generic
Index 		Morphology Host
Plants 		Overview of
Palearctic Fauna 		Literature
Cited
Guide Main | Beetle Home