Physoma Clark, 1863

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

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; Bechyné 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).