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 7 7 109 114 journal article http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5562912 9de32fb5-ae5c-4552-afdb-9cfdcad56ce9 5562912 Namaphilusgen . nov. , Figs 1–2 TYPE SPECIES. Namakwanus endroedyi Deschodt , Davis & Scholtz , 2011 , here designated. Gender of new name: masculine. DESCRIPTION. Small ( 7.1–9.7 mm long × 4.5–5.8 mm wide) dark brown, rounded and convex beetles. Head: with two small and short, slightly upturned clypeal teeth; one much smaller tooth medially on lower margin of clypeus. Pronotum: dark brown, convex with ovoid to round punctures. Protibia: tridentate in last one-third of outside margin, more or less smooth in first two-thirds. Elytra: strongly convex, dark brown. Sterna: mesometasternal suture straight. Scutellum not visible. Pygidium: shagreened with small punctures. DISCUSSION. Morphologically this new genus can easily be separated from Versicorpus by lacking serrations on the outside margins of the front tibiae and by being smaller ( 7.1–9.7 mm long) and more convex than the larger ( 10.1 mm ) and more elongate Versicorpus . The clypeus of Namakwanus has much more pronounced clypeal teeth than Namaphilus . The known species in the genus thus currently comprise Namaphilus davisi ( Deschodt & Scholtz, 2007 ) comb. nov., Namaphilus endroedyi ( Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz, 2011 ) comb. nov. and Namaphilus ameibensis spec. nov.