© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2013 DOI 10.1163/1876312X-04401004
Insect Systematics & Evolution 44 (2013) 93–106 brill.com/ise
Ntaolaltica and Pseudophygasia, two new fea beetle
genera from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:
Galerucinae: Alticini)
Maurizio Biondi and Paola D’Alessandro*
Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, Section of Environmental Sciences
University of L’Aquila, 67100 Coppito-L’Aquila, Italy
*Corresponding author, e-mail: paola.dalessandro@univaq.it
Published 15 April 2013
Abstract
Ntaolaltica antennata gen.n. and sp.n. and Pseudophygasia gen.n. from Madagascar are described. Te
following new combinations are established: Phygasia ambohitsitondroensis Bechyné, 1952 (= Pseudophygasia
ambohitsitondroensis (Bechyné, 1952) comb.n.); Phygasia analis (Harold, 1877) (= Pseudophygasia analis
(Harold, 1877) comb.n.); Phygasia apolinaria Bechyné, 1952 (= Pseudophygasia apolinaria (Bechyné,
1952) comb.n.); Phygasia denotata Bechyné, 1952 (= Pseudophygasia denotata (Bechyné, 1952) comb.n.);
Phygasia freyi Bechyné, 1964 (= Pseudophygasia freyi (Bechyné, 1964) comb.n.); Phygasia furax Bechyné,
1952 (= Pseudophygasia furax (Bechyné, 1952) comb.n.); Phygasia goudoti (Harold, 1877) (= Pseudophygasia
goudoti (Harold, 1877) comb.n.); Phygasia bicolor Weise, 1910 (= Diphaulacosoma bicolor (Weise, 1910)
comb.n.); Phygasia scutellaris Weise, 1910 (= Diphaulacosoma scutellare (Weise, 1910) comb.n.).
Photomicrographs and scanning electron micrographs of peculiar morphological characters, and distribu-
tional data are also provided.
Keywords
Diphaulacosoma; new combinations; new genera; Ntaolaltica gen.n.; Phygasia; Pseudophygasia gen.n.
Introduction
In a recent annotated catalogue mostly based on published data (Biondi & D’Alessandro
2010) we pointed out that many details of the composition of the Afrotropical fea
beetle fauna still remain incomplete, particularly for Madagascar, which is highlighted
by the discrepancy in the numbers of morphogenera and morphospecies in African
entomological material preserved in public and private collections and those that have
been ofcially described. During our recent visits to some of the most important muse-
ums in Europe for the African fauna (MHN, MNHN, NHMB, NMPC), we had the
opportunity to examine interesting fea beetle material from Madagascar, in many