Physonota alutacea Boheman, 1854
Physonota alutacea Boheman, 1854: 191(LT!, PLT!in NRS), 1856: 98, 1862: 243; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3646; Wagener, 1877: 54; Champion, 1894: 166; Spaeth, 1914 g: 62; Weise, 1921: 205; Blackwelder, 1946: 746; Sanderson, 1948: 474 (genitalia, larva, pupa); Freude, 1949: 127; Wilcox, 1975: 153; Noguera, 1988: 300; Buzzi, 1988: 573 (biology); Borowiec, 1996 a: 213, 1998 b: 192, 1999 d: 172, 2002 a: 110, 2009 f: 694; Flowers and Janzen, 1997: 355; Jolivet, 1997: pl. 4 (colour photo); Chaboo and Borowiec, 2003: 73; Świętojańska and Windsor, 2008: 655 (larva, pupa); Cuignet, 2008: 365, 367 (parasitoids); Borowiec and Takizawa, 2011: 455.
Physonota cyrtodes Boheman, 1854: 192 (LT!, PLT! in NRS), 1856: 98, 1862: 243; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3646; Wagener, 1877: 54 (as possible syn. of alutacea); Champion, 1894: 166 (as syn.).
Physonota alutacea ab. cyrtodes: Spaeth, 1914 g: 62.
Physonota alutacea var. cyrtodes: Maulik, 1916: 582; Wilcox, 1975: 153.
Host plant: Boraginaceae: Cordia boissieri (Barber, 1916; Sanderson, 1948); Cordia dentata (Noguera, 1988); Cordia plurispicata (Buzzi, 1994); Cordia inermis (Flowers and Janzen, 1997); Cordia macrostachya (Simmonds, 1949).
Distr.: alutacea: Mexico et Columbia; cyrtodes: Mexico et Columbia. Colombia: Bogota; Costa Rica; Ecuador: Guayas, Manabi; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico: Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan; Nicaragua: Leon; Panama; Trinidad; Venzuela: Anzoategui, Aragua, Bolivar, Distr. Federal, Maracay, Merida, Miranda, Portugesa; USA: Texas: Mercedes, Brownsville.
figure: habitus in colour
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