Transfer of three species of Namakwanus Scholtz & Howden to Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz or to Namaphilus gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
Author
Deschodt, Christian M.
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
cdeschodt@zoology.up.ac.za
Author
Davis, Adrian L. V.
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
text
Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History
2017
2017-05-01
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journal article
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5562912
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Byrrhidium convexum
Scholtz & Howden, 1987
.
Widespread in Namaqualand
from the environs of
Nuwerus
[
31.149°S
18.358°E
] in the south to
Steinkopf
[29.266°S 17.734°E] in the north. More or less confined to the
Namaqualand Klipkoppe Shrubland
vegetation unit as defined by
Mucina and Rutherford (2006)
.
Collected some distance
from rock hyrax middens among Namaqualand heuweltjies
(
Mima-like earth mounds
,
Lovegrove and Siegfried, 1986
), but
probably also associated with rock hyraxes
.