Stuckenbergiana

Stuckenbergiana
Stuckenbergiana glabrata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Alticini
Genus:	Stuckenbergiana Scherer, 1963
Species:	S. glabrata
Binomial name
Stuckenbergiana glabrata (Jacoby, 1899)

Stuckenbergiana is a genus of flea beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae. There is a single described species, Stuckenbergiana glabrata, which is found in South Africa.[1]

Description

This beetle is small (3 mm long). The head and pronotum (thorax) are orange, and the elytra, breast, and abdomen black. The antennae are filiform, orange at the base and blackish towards the apex. The pronotum is transverse (width greater than length) with sides that are strongly rounded with narrow margins, and an antebasal transverse groove. The scutellum is small and the elytra are strongly convex, much wider at the base than the thorax.

Taxonomy

Stuckenbergiana glabrata (Jacoby 1899) was originally described as Podagrica glabrata,[2] but Scherer created the genus Stuckenbergiana because the species was sufficiently different from other species of Podagrica.[3]

References

1. Biondi, Maurizio; d'Alessandro, Paola (2012). "Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)". ZooKeys (253): 1–158. Bibcode:2012ZooK..253....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.253.3414. PMC 3560840. PMID 23378812.
2. Jacoby, Martin (1899). "Additions to the Knowledge of the Phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa. Part II". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 76 (2): 339–380 [349].
3. Scherer, Gerhard (1963). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Alticidenfauna Afrikas (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae)" (PDF). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey. 14 (2): 648–684.