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

Meishania Chen & Wang

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Meishania Chen & Wang, 1980:13-14, 24-25 (type species M.rufa Chen & Wang, 1980, China, by monotypy). - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:331.

Distribution: Northwestern China (Sichuan, Emeishan).

Statistics: 1 species.

Host Plants: Unknown.

Comments: We have not been able to study a representative of this genus. Therefore we include in the diagnosis the most important characters from the original description (Chen & Wang, 1980).

Diagnosis: "Body ovate, moderately convex. Frontal tubercles transverse, not strongly raised but well delimited from vertex. Antenna filiform, second segment thicker and longer than third, fourth equal to third, five apical segments distinctly thickened, each more than 1.5 times longer than broad. Prothorax twice as broad as long, without antebasal furrow, basal margin gently sinuate, with median lobe. Elytra fairly regularly punctate in single rows. Prosternum broad, anterior coxal cavity open behind. First segment of posterior tarsi shorter than following two ones combined. Claws appendiculate" (Chen & Wang 1980).

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