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

Argopistes Motschulsky

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Argopistes Motschulsky, 1860:236 (type species A.biplagiata Motschulsky, 1860, Siberia, by monotypy). - Heikertinger, 1924a:34. - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1940:523. - Maulik, 1926:284, 296. - Chen, 1933:223. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:746, 811. -Kimoto, 1965:435. - Scherer, 1969:227. - Samuelson, 1973:71, 1979:405, 408. - Medvedev, 1992:588. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:359.

Distribution: East Palearctic (Russian Far East, Japan, N.China), Oriental, Oceania, Africa, North and Central America.

Statistics: 4 species in Palearctic, worldwide nearly 45 species.

Host Plants: Fraxinus, Osmanthus, Ligustrum (Gressitt & Kimoto 1963).

Diagnosis: Body medium sized to large, hemispherical, convex from lateral view. Color black, dark brown, orange or reddish orange, sometimes with spots on elytra.
Head opisthognathous, more or less convex from lateral view. Frons with three long, very narrow and sharp ridges. Antennal calli raised, oval, broadly connected, not delimited from vertex by distinct furrow. Orbital line absent. Vertex very narrow. Interantennal space narrower than diameter of antennal socket. Eye very large. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum very broad, convex, lateral margin narrowly explanate. Procoxal cavity open behind. Intercoxal prosternal process and mesosternum wide, almost parallelsided.
Elytra broadly oval, laterally explanate, with well developed humeral calli. Punctation confused. Epipleuron wide, horizontal.
Metafemur greatly enlarged. Metatibia with flat apical 1/2, lateral side of upper surface with dense teeth. Apex of metatibia forming sharp tooth with large emargination and spine inside. First metatarsal segment almost as long as following three segments combined, attached to tibia preapically.

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