Afissa Dieke, 1947

Afissa Dieke, 1947 View in CoL

Afissa Dieke, 1947: 113. Type species (original designation): Coccinella flavicollis Thunberg, 1781. Type locality: East Indies. Synonymised with Epilachna Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837, by Li and Cook (1961). Resurrected from synonymy by Szawaryn et al. (2015). View in CoL

Afissula Kapur, 1958 View in CoL . Type species (original designation): Afissula rana ( Kapur 1958) View in CoL . Mentioned in Jadwiszczak and Węgrzynowicz (2003); Kovár 2007; Ren et al. (2009). Synonymised by Szawaryn et al. (2015).

Epilachna Chevrolat View in CoL in Dejean, 1837 (in part). Synonymised by Tomaszewska and Szawaryn (2016).

Diagnosis

Afissa can be reliably distinguished from all other Asian representatives and the remaining genera of Epilachnini by a unique combination of morphological characters: antenna longer than head width; coxites much longer than wide; mandibular incisor edge without teeth; lateral margins of elytra most often not or hardly visible from above (sometimes visible from above, but narrow); metanepisternum with simple, smooth inner margin; mid- and hind coxae with smooth hind margin.