Physopelta (Afrophysopelta) rufialata Cachan, 1952

Physopelta rufialata Cachan, 1952: 72–73, pl. V: fig. 2 (key, description, figures, distribution).

SYNTYPES: ♂ ♀, Madagascar: Ambohitsitondroina, Maroantsetra (both east Madagascar), and Tananarive [= Antananarivo] (central Madagascar) (MNHN).

Type material examined. SYNTYPE: ♂, ‘Ambohitsitondroina [hw] / Inst. Scient. Madagascar [p] / III-49 Vadon [hw, white label’ // ‘Maroantsetra’ [p, white label] // ‘Museum Paris’ [p, light blue label] // ‘TYPE’ [p, red label] // ‘ Physopelta / rufialata / n. sp. / Cachan det.’ [hw, white label] (MNHN). Specimen pinned through pronotum, right antenna, mesotarsus, and hind leg, and left antennomere 4, middle leg, and metatarsus missing.

? SYNTYPE: ♀, ‘MUSEUM PARIS / MADAGASCAR / TANANARIVE / COLL:NOUALHIER 1898’ [p, greyish label] / ‘Physopelta’ [hw, white label] (MNHN). Specimen pinned through scutellum, only left antennomere 4 missing.

Distribution. Central and East Madagascar (CACHAN 1952).