Cossyphodes vandami Andreae, 1961

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 : 361

Cossyphodes vandami Andreae, 1961

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Examined type material. South Africa, Gauteng (labelled as Transvaal), 16 miles NE Pretoria, X.1954, leg. G. Rudebeck, 3 paratypes MZLU.

New material. South Africa, Mpumalanga (labelled as E Transvaal), Waterval River Pass, 24°54'S / 30°21'E, 6.XI.1980, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 6 ex. TMSA, 1 ex. SMNS.— South Africa, Limpopo, Krüger NP, camp 1 km E Pafurires, 22°25'S / 31°13'E, 31.I.1994, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 1 ex. TMSA, 1 ex. SMNS.

Remarks. The examined paratypes of C. vandami have the elytra somewhat more narrowed towards tip as specimens of C. wasmanni , and also somewhat higher elytral keels, but all other external characters agree. At present, these differences are considered as specific.

Type locality. “Pretoria, Zoohill”.

Distribution. South Africa (Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo).

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.