Somoplatus fulvus Mulsant & Godart, 1867

Figs 4, 12, 20, 26

Somoplatus fulvus: Mulsant & Godart 1867: 411; Gangelbauer 1892: 396; Burgeon 1936: 307; Jeannel 1942: 1016; Basilewsky 1953: 1032; 1967: 1749; 1969: 342; 1984: 32; 1986: 245. (Type possibly lost.)

Somoplatus marseuli Chaudoir, 1876: 7 (type in MNHN). Synonymy established by Gangelbauer (1892).

New country records: 3♀‘ IVORY COAST, NE, Comoé National Park, v. 2000, Philippe Moretto leg., inside termite hill’ (PSC) ; 2♀‘ MALAWI centr., Luwawa (30 km S Mzimba), 30.-31.xii.2001, J. Bezdek leg’ (SMNH, PSC) ; 1 ♂ 1♀‘ BURKINA FASO: NAHOURI, Forêt de Nazinga, Akwazena, 275m, 11°09'24"N: 1°36'44"E, 26.vii.2006, zone soudanienne savane boisée, piège lumineux, F. & S. Génier, 2006-76’ (FGC) ; 1 ♂ SOUTH AFRICA: ‘RSA: Northern Province [= Limpopo], Thabaphaswa Farm, 1400 m N, Potgietersrus, 13.-14.xii.2003, leg. W. Schawaller’ (SMNH) .

Distribution: West, Central and South Africa.