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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5562912
Namaphilus endroedyi
(
Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz, 2011
).
Collected live in the
Naukluft Mountains
,
Namibia
,at least six months after the previous rain (C.M.D. pers. obs.). The
holotype
is currently curated by the South African National Collection of Insects [
SANC
] in Pretoria
.