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.