(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Manobia Jacoby
Manobia gressitti |
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Manobia gressitti |
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Distribution: This genus is widely distributed in the
Oriental region and in Australia (Japan, China, India, Vietnam,
Burma, Indonesia, New Guinea).
Statistics: 2 species in Palearctic, more than 100
species worldwide.
Host Plants: Acalypha sp.
(Gressitt & Kimoto 1963).
Diagnosis: Body
small to medium sized, more or less oval. Color yellow to
black, with or without metallic lustre.
Head hypo-prognathous, long. Facial part of head very
long. Frontal ridge narrow, long, concave (lateral view) weakly
delineated laterally, not forming T-shaped ridge with anterior
margin of head capsule. Gena almost as long as longitudinal
diameter of eye and longer than vertex. Antennal calli very
narrow, transverse, well delineated from vertex by furrow, weakly
delimited laterally and from frontal ridge. Interantennal space
wider than diameter of antennal socket, narrower than transverse
diameter of eye. Orbital line present. Clypeus and labrum long.
Antenna 11-segmented, filiform to moniliform.
Pronotum wide, basally sinuate, convex, with
antebasal transverse impression. Procoxal cavity open behind.
Intercoxal prosternal process not wide.
Elytra oval, basally much wider than pronotum, with
well developed humeral calli, and shallow transverse impression
behind. Epipleuron subvertical, notably tapering apically.
Metatibia thin, long, usually cylindrical, apex flat.
First metatarsal segment usually as long as following two
segments combined.
