Psalydolytta Péringuey, 1909

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41. Psalydolytta Péringuey, 1909

Gnathospastoides Fletcher, 1914 . Type species: Lytta rouxii Castelnau, 1840 , by monotypy.

Type species. Lytta lorigera Gerstaecker, 1854 , by subsequent designation ( Imperial Institute of Entomology , 1935) (see Selander, 1991). 52 spp .

Geographic distribution. Most of Africa south of the Sahara (except Madagascar, Somalia and extreme S Africa), India and the S Himalayan region.

References

Taxonomy. Mäklin (1875); Péringuey (1909); Kaszab (1954b key and catalogue); Anand (1977, 1989); Bologna (1978, 1994b); Saha (1979 key to the Indian spp.); Selander (1988c annotated catalogue).

Bionomics. Giglioli (1965); Anand (1978); Selander and Laurense (1987); Selander (1988c); Zethner and Laurense (1988); Gahukar (1989); Gahukar et al. (1989).

Larvae. Selander and Laurense (1987).

Pharmacology. Giglioli (1965).

Notes

The number of species belonging to Psalydolytta is questionable. Some recently described Indian species need re-evaluation. Also, an additional Indian species,

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P. fasciculata (Pic, 1920) , was not examined in Kaszab’s revision, but is considered as distinct by Anand (1980).

The rst-instar larva of a single species has been described. It is very similar to those of Epicauta , as is the little that is known of its larval biology (Selander and Laurense, 1987).