Scarites Fabricius, 1775

There are seven species in this genus, two of them polytypic [ Scarites (Orientolobus) lucidus (Chaudoir, 1880) and Scarites (Scarites) tenebricosus Dejean, 1831] known from Angola (Ferreira 1965, Anichtchenko 2016, Insectoid.info 2017). Four species belong to Scarites (s. str.), two to sg. Orientolobus Dostall, 1996 and one to sg. Parallelomorphus Motschulsky, 1849 .