Publications by authors named "Albert F Damaska"

The diversity and biology of the moss and leaf litter-inhabiting flea beetles are still poorly known. In this study, three new species of are described from China: Ruan & Konstantinov, , Ruan & Konstantinov, , and Ruan & Konstantinov, Comments on their biology are given. has a highly unusual morphological feature not reported before in flea beetles: black spots on the abdominal tergites that are visible through the elytra.

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Moss-inhabiting flea beetles form a diversified ecological group of beetles with a number of recently described new species. Here, we present an overview of known species of the moss-inhabiting flea beetle genus Cangshanaltica Konstantinov, Chamorro, Prathapan, Ge & Yang, 2013 which is distributed in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia. We describe three new species: Cangshanaltica guanxiensis sp.

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The Philippine islands are one of the key biodiversity hotspots in the Indo-Pacific area. Knowledge of moss-inhabiting flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae), a diverse and ecologically and morphologically enigmatic group in the Philippines is described. Six species from the Philippines are recorded, belonging to three genera: Sprecher-Uebersax et al.

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