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 Physoma Clark, 1863 Figs 82234-235352 =Tropidophora Thomson, 1858: 217 (synonymized by Jacoby 1888 ) Hyphasis Harold, 1877 (pars) Hyphasoma Jacoby, 1903 (pars) Oedionychus Berthold, 1827 (pars) References. Clark 1863 : 165; Thomson 1858 : 217; Chapuis 1875 : 83, 87; Harold 1877b : 434; Weise 1895 : 344; Jacoby 1888 : 205; 1903b : 110; Bechyne 1959c : 318; Scherer 1962a : 73 (as Physonychis ); Biondi and D'Alessandro 2010a : 412. Type species. Physoma : Physoma tripartitum (Thomson, 1858) (Gabon)(= Physonychis rugicollis Clark, 1860 in litteris), by subsequent designation by Chapuis (1875) ; Tropidophora : Tropidophora tripartita Thomson, 1858: 217 (Gabon), designation by monotypy. Distribution. Central and Western Africa, and Madagascar (Fig. 352) Ecology. No information. Notes. Two species known from Sub-Saharan Africa and about twenty from Madagascar.The genus-name Tropidophora Thomson is not available because it was ambiguously applied (ICZN, 1999: art. 12.2.5).