Galleruca avicenniae Fabricius, 1792 Fig. 11 avicenniae Fabricius, 1792: 18 (Americae meridionalis Avicenniis). Material examined Syntype COUNTRY NOT INDICATED ON SPECIMEN • ♀; “ avicenniae / TYPE”; Kiel. Status in Zimsen (1964) P. 109 No.1692. “in Americae meridionalis Avicenniis Dr. Isert” Kiel 1 specimen. Original description “G. ferruginea elytris cyaneis. Habitat in Americae meridionalis Avicenniis Dr. Isert. Parva. Antennae nigrae basi ferrugineae. Caput & thorax laevia, ferruginea, nitida, immaculata. Elytra laevia, cyanea, nitida. Corpus & pedes ferruginea.” Current statusavicenniae(Fabricius, 1792) incertae sedis Galerucini Latreille, 1802. Measurements Syntype (Fig. 11): LB = 5.21 mm; WB = 2.82 mm. Remarks The syntype housed in Kiel corresponds with the original description. However, it is clearly not an Alticine and belongs to Galerucini based on the thin metafemora missing metafemoral spring. Why this species was included in Oedionychina is difficult to trace. Illiger (1807: 83) noted in a footnote that Galleruca avicenniae should be included in the genus Haltica Geoffroy, 1762 (now a synonym of Altica Geoffroy, 1762), after a comment from Count von Hoffmansegg while visiting the collection of Count von Hagens in Berlin. Heikertinger & Csiki (1940: 439) included this species as Oedionychus avicenniae, effectively including in Oedionychina. The rationale behind this decision is unknown, but potentially because the footnote in Illiger (1807) including Galleruca avicenniae was on the same page with three species obviously belonging in Oedionychina (current combinations: Ciguapanychis bicolor (Linnaeus, 1767), Kuschelina thoracica (Fabricius, 1775) and Kuschelina vians (Illiger, 1807)).