Physetopoda Schuster, 1949

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10. Genus Physetopoda Schuster, 1949

Type species: Physetopoda insularis Schuster, 1949 , ♂, by original designation (junior subjective synonym of Mutilla rubrocincta Lucas, 1849 , ♂.

Forty-seven species are known, mostly from the Palaearctic, though many of the Afrotropica members of Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870 will likely be transferred to Physetopoda in the future. Five species are known from the Oriental Region ( Pagliano et al. 2020). Four species of this genus are distributed in Azerbaijan, one of them is newly recorded from Azerbaijan.