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Criolis Mulsant, 1858 . Type species: Criolis guerini Mulsant, 1858 , by monotypy.

? Coriologiton Marseul, 1879 . Type species: Criolis hilaris Marseul, 1879 , by monotypy.

Deratus Motschulsky, 1848 . Type species: Meloe necydalea Pallas, 1773 , by monotypy (see

Selander, 1991).

Type species. Meloe bimaculatus Linnaeus, 1761 , by monotypy. 21 spp. Geographic distribution. Palaearctic Region , E and S Africa ( Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola) .

References

Taxonomy. Mulsant (1858); Marseul (1879); Prochazka (1892 key and catalogue); Escherich (1897a key and catalogue); Borchmann (1942); Kaszab (1981); Bologna (1991a, 1994a).

Bionomics. Gené (1831); Strauch (1863); De Stefani Perez (1885); Beauregard (1890); Bedel (1892); Cros (1917b, 1928a); Bologna (1991a review).

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Larvae. Cros (1917b, 1928a); Bologna (1991a).

Ethology. Strauch (1863).

Anatomy. Beauregard (1890); Gupta (1971, 1978).

Notes

The limits of Apalus are not clearly de ned, and some species seem to be almost intermediate to Stenoria , herein regarded as a distinct genus (see below).

Aksentjev (1988) treated the African Coriologiton as a genus. Although we follow Kaszab (1969a) and Selander (1991) by treating it as a junior synonym this may prove to be in error. Coriologiton was based on a species from Angola which we have not examined. It was originally compared to Criolis by Marseul (1879), a certain junior synonym of Apalus . However, Coriologiton was described as having abellate antennae, a transverse pronotum and three distinct elytral costae. These features suggest that the genus is valid. The ve Afrotropical species are represented by single specimens in collections and require further examination to con rm generic assignment (see Bologna, 1991a). It is possible that one or more of these, as well a new undescribed species from Zambia (CASC), belong to Coriologiton . We have con rmed clear assignment to Apalus only for tanganyikanus Kaszab, 1981, from Tanzania (holotype examined, HNHM).

We do not follow Kaszab (1969a) and Selander (1991) who both erroneously associated Deratus with Stenoria rather than Apalus . Also, Selander (1991) treated Sitaropsis IablokoV- Khnzoryan as a subgenus of Apalus . Based on the original description, and in agreement with Aksentjev (1988), we refer it to Stenoria .

The rst-instar larvae are phoretic. The genus is known to include parasitoids of bees of several families, particularly Colletidae (Colletes) and Anthophoridae (Anthophora) .