Physodactyla Chapuis, 1875

Biondi, Maurizio & D'Alessandro, Paola, 2012, Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), ZooKeys 253, pp. 1-158 : 40

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.