Physonychis Clark, 1860

Biondi, Maurizio & D'Alessandro, Paola, 2012, Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini), ZooKeys 253, pp. 1-158 : 40

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.253.3414

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scientific name

Physonychis Clark, 1860
status

 

Physonychis Clark, 1860 Figs 84239354

References.

Clark 1860: 29; Duvivier 1891: 424; Bechyné 1959c: 321; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 412.

Type species.

Physonychis smaragdina Clark, 1860: 31 (Western Africa), by original designation.

Distribution.

Sub-Saharan Africa (absent in the southern-western part of SAF and Madagascar). Physonychis varicornis Duvivier, 1891 from Madagascar was transferred to the genus Physoma Clark by Bechyné (1959c) (Fig. 354).

Ecology.

No information.

Notes.

About thirty known species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

SubFamily

Galerucinae

Tribe

Alticini