Systematic position of the Afrotropical species described in Trachyphloeini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) Author Borovec, Roman Author Skuhrovec, Jiří text Zootaxa 2017 2017-11-08 4344 3 journal volume 31588 10.11646/zootaxa.4344.3.5 e4049a32-efd8-41a3-9121-56a528bdfa58 1175-5326 1043727 28FD74C1-3461-4789-9BD4-B835B7D1985C Afrophloeus spathulatus (Boheman, 1842) ( Fig. 1A ) Trachyphloeus spathulatus Boheman in Schoenherr, 1842 : 111 (original description). Trachyphloeus spathulatus : Lacordaire, 1863 : 193 (monograph of Entiminae); Seidlitz, 1868 : 98 (monograph of Otiorhynchinae); Lona, 1937 : 331 (catalogue); Borovec & Meregalli, 2013 : 501 (note). Afrophloeus spathulatus : Borovec & Oberprieler 2013 : 373 (genus description, species redescription). Type locality. Cap. Bonae Spei [ Cape of Good Hope , South Africa ; probably the Cape Peninsula] . Type material. Detailed by Borovec & Oberprieler (2013) ( Fig. 1A ). Remarks. The species was described originally as Trachyphloeus , and Borovec & Oberprieler (2013) transferred it to a new genus, Afrophloeus Borovec & Oberprieler, 2013 , placed in the tribe Embrithini Marshall, 1942 . The lectotype was examined and designated as such by Borovec & Oberprieler (2013) .