Cossyphodes

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2013, Cossyphodini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) in South Africa, Namibia and adjacent regions: New species and records, key to genera, and Old World species catalogue, Zootaxa 3721 (4), pp. 351-364 : 362

Key to the species of Cossyphodes in South Africa

1 Eyes completely absent, without ocelli.................................................................... 2

– Eyes present, sickle-shaped, composed by two rows of dark ocelli.............................................. 3

2 Head without keels or tubercles, pronotum and elytra with extinct inner keels and with feeble external keels...... C. braunsi

– Head with weak keels and tubercles, pronotum with distinct keels and additionally with distinct medial keel, elytra with dis- tinct keels and secondary keels............................................................... C. caecus sp. n.

3 Elytra without secondary keels and extinct inner main keel present only in the anterior quarter of elytra, pronotum with only traces of a medial keel.................................................................... C. andreaei sp. n.

– Elytra with distinct secondary keels, pronotum with distinct medial keel.......................................... 4

4 Elytra more narrowed towards tip, dorsal keels high ( Fig. 24 )........................................... C. vandami

– Elytra broader towards tip, dorsal keels low ( Figs. 12–13 )........................................... C. wasmanni

Figures

FIGURES 21 – 26. Dorsal view of African Cossyphodini. 21. Cossyphodes raffrayi Gestro, 1874, Tanzania, non-type HNHM. 22. Cossyphodes mourgliai Ferrer, 1993, Zambia, holotype ZSM. 23. Cossyphodes uviranus Basilewsky, 1951, Congo, nontype ZFMK. 24. Cossyphodes vandami Andreae, 1961, RSA / Pretoria, paratype MZLU. 25. Paramellops bewicki (Wollaston, 1861), RSA / Matjiesfontein, non-type TMSA. 26. Cossyphodites woodroofei (Péringuey, 1885), South Africa, non-type HNHM. Scale: 1 mm.

FIGURES 7 – 13. Dorsal view of African Cossyphodini. 7 – 8. Cossyphodes andreaei sp. n., RSA / Waterberg, paratype SMNS and aedeagus. 9. Cossyphodes arnoldi Brauns, 1925, Zimbabwe, lectotype TMSA. 10. Cossyphodes naukluftensis sp. n., Namibia / Naukluft, holotype TMSA. 11. Cossyphodes angolanus Basilewsky, 1952, holotype MRUC. 12. Cossyphodes wasmanni Reichensperger, 1915 (Cossyphodes brincki Andreae, 1961 syn. n., RSA / Hluhluwe, holotype MZLU). 13. Cossyphodes wasmanni Reichensperger, 1915, Zimbabwe, lectotype TMSA. Scale: 1 mm, for aedeagus: 0.5 mm.