Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)
Author
Biondi, Maurizio
Author
D'Alessandro, Paola
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Physodactyla Chapuis, 1875
Figs 81232-233351
Oedionychus
Berthold, 1827 (pars)
References.
Chapuis 1875
: 83, 88;
Scherer 1962a
: 72;
Biondi and
D'Alessandro
2010a
: 412.
Type species.
Physonychis africana
Chapuis, 1875: 89 (East Africa), by original designation.
Distribution.
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Republic of South Africa (Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal), Sudan and Tanzania (Fig. 351).
Ecology.
Physodactyla rubiginosa
(
Gerstaecker 1871
: 84) was collected from
Thunbergia alata
Bojer ex Sims (
Acanthaceae
) in Kenya (
Furth 1985
);
Physodactyla africana
(Chapuis) from
Digera arvensis
Forssk. (
Amaranthaceae
) in Sudan (
Pollard 1957
, as
Physonychis
).
Notes.
Six described species.