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.