Genus Callistodontopyge Hoffman & Howell, 1981

Type species

Callistodontopyge decora Hoffman & Howell, 1981 (Tanzania), by original designation, now a synonym of C. latifolia (Attems, 1914), see below.

Other included species

Four (Hoffman 2002).

Remarks

An easily recognized genus of usually bright and contrastfully coloured species (Fig. 12), also unusual among odontopygids by their comparatively compact body and by the trilobed distal margin of the male mandibular stipes (Fig. 3B). The five included species are distributed in Somalia, eastern Kenya and northern Tanzania (Hoffman & Howell 1981; Hoffman 2002).