Siopelus Murray, 1859

A genus with ten species known for Angola (Ferreira 1965, Insectoid.info 2017, Facchini 2017b), distributed by six subgenera [ Africobatus Basilewsky, 1946, Aulacoryssus Alluaud, 1916, Laparhetes Jeannel, 1946 and Siopelus (s. str.) with one species each one, Neosiopelus Basilewsky, 1946 and Pseudosiopelus Alluaud, 1916 with two and four species, respectively] (Ferreira 1965, Anichtchenko 2016, Insectoid.info 2017, Facchini 2017b). A total of eigth species were sampled within Africobatus, Aulacoryssus, Laparhetes (each one with one species), Neosiopelus (two species) and the remaining three within Pseudosiopelus .