Phygasia Chevrolat, 1836

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 : 39

Phygasia Chevrolat, 1836 Figs 79230349

=Macroorthocrepis Pic, 1921 (synonymized by Bechyné 1960b)

Lactica Erichson, 1847 (pars)

References.

Chevrolat 1836: 387; Harold 1877b: 365; Fairmaire 1888: 156; Pic 1921: 14; Bryant 1940: 46; Bechyné 1960b: 82; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 412; in press.

Type species.

Phygasia : Altica unicolor Olivier, 1808: 699 (India), by original designation; Macroorthocrepis : Macroorthocrepis pallidicolor Pic, 1921: 14 (Abyssinia), designation by monotypy.

Distribution.

Afrotropical (excluding Madagascar), Oriental and Palaearctic regions (Fig. 349).

Ecology.

Species in this genus are mainly associated with plants in the family Asclepiadaceae (cf. Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995).

Notes.

About thirty-five species have been described in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Madagascan species previously attributed to this genus have been transferred to the genus Pseudophygasia Biondi and D’Alessandro, in press.