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

Batophila Foudras

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Batophila Foudras, 1859 (1860):143, 378 (type species Galeruca rubi Paykull, 1799, Europe, by subsequent designation of Heikertinger, 1921). - Allard, 1860:539 (as Podagrica Chevrolat). - Horn, 1889:289 (as Glyptina Leconte). - Heikertinger, 1921:89; 1950:50. - Chûjô, 1937:54. -Kaszab, 1962:336. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:875. - Kimoto, 1966:612. - Shapiro, 1965:455. - Mohr, 1966:237. - Gruev & Tomov, 1986:247. - Lopatin, 1986:100. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:335.

Distribution: Mostly Palearctic genus (Europe, Caucasus, Russian Far East, Japan, China). Also occurs in Oriental China and Nepal.

Statistics: 6 species in Palearctic, 11 species worldwide.

Host Plants: Fragaria, Rubus, Aronia, Potentilla, Cornus (Medvedev & Roginskaya 1988).

Comments: Chûjô (1937) erroneously designated Altica aerata Marshall as the type species of Batophila.

Diagnosis: Body small, elliptical, swollen. Color dark brown or black, usually with metallic lustre.
Head hypo-prognathous, small, round, more or less convex from lateral view. Frontal ridge short, flat, comparatively wide, forming short, angular T-shaped ridge with anterior margin of head capsule. Antennal calli small, rhomboidal, not connected, raised but not delimited from vertex by furrows. Orbital line absent. Clypeus and labrum short. Antenna 11-segmented, apical segments moniliform.
Pronotum convex with narrowly explanate lateral margin, without any impressions or furrows. Procoxal cavity open behind. Intercoxal prosternal process and mesoternum comparatively wide.
Elytra oval, very convex, without humeral calli. Elytral punctures large, arranged in striae; interspaces convex. Epipleuron comparatively wide reaching posterolateral margin of elytron.
Metafemur typical. Metatibia with flat apical 1/3, apex slightly thickened with large spine inserted medially. First metatarsal segment as long as following two segments combined.

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