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 text ZooKeys 2012 253 1 158 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414 1313-2970-253-1 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.