Philopona Weise, 1903
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Philopona Weise, 1903 Figs 78229348
Oedionychus Berthold, 1827 (pars)
References.
Weise 1903: 216; Laboissière 1942: 105; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 411.
Type species.
Oedionychis (?) vernicata Gerstaecker, 1871: 84 (Zanzibar), by original designation.
Distribution.
Afrotropical (excluding Madagascar), Australian, Oriental and Southern-Eastern Palaearctic regions (Fig. 348).
Ecology.
Philopona usambarica Csiki (in Heikertinger and Csiki 1940: 453) collected on Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims ( Acanthaceae ) in Kenya ( Furth 1985).
Notes.
About twenty species known from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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