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

Podagricomela Heikertinger

Podagricomela nigricollis Click here to see a larger image

Podagricomela Heikertinger, 1924a:36 (type species P.weisei, Heikertinger, 1924, China, by monotypy). - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1940:364. - Chen, 1936:377. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:788. - Scherer, 1969:151. - Wang, 1990:123. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:359.

Distribution: China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia.

Statistics: 2 species in Palearctic, 7 species worldwide.

Host Plants: Citrus spp. (Chen, 1936b).

Diagnosis: Body moderate to large, oval, cylindrical. Color dark reddish, brown, black or metallic blue or violet, sometimes pronotum and elytra differently colored.
Head hypognathous, broadly oval, comparatively flat from lateral view. Frontal ridge very short, wide and flat, not forming T-shaped ridge with apical margin of head capsule. Antennal calli absent. Frontal furrow unusually deep and wide. Orbital line present. Antennal furrow deep with sharp anterior margin. Apical part of frontal ridge with two large setiferous pores situated laterally on bottom of deep oval excavations. Clypeus and labrum long. Eye large. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum broad, convex, with anterolateral margin enlarged, sometimes with longitudinal swellings on each side of pronotum, delimited by coarse punctures. Procoxal cavity closed behind. Intercoxal prosternal process narrow. Mesosternum wide.
Elytra broadly oval, convex. Punctures arranged in striae; interspaces comparatively flat. Humeral callus well developed. Epipleuron more or less wide, subhorizontal.
Metatibia almost cylindrical, with few barely discernible longitudinal ridges dorsally. Metatarsus inserted apically. Metatibial apical spine absent.

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