Galerella pulverulenta (Wagner, 1839) . Gelehrte. Anz. I.K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., München., 9:426.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Kap" [Cape of Good Hope, South Africa] .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, south of 27°S latitude (Bronner, 1990).

SYNONYMS: apiculatus Gray, 1865; basuticus Roberts, 1936; caffra Smith, 1826; tasti Wroughton, 1907; maritimus Roberts, 1919; ratlamuchi Thomas, 1929; ruddi Rhomas, 1903; rufescens Lorenz, 1898.

COMMENTS: Revised by Lynch (1981) and Watson and Dippenaar (1987), who removed annidata and shortridgei (considered here as incertae sedis) and nigrata (placed here in flavescens) from pulverulenta; although Meester et al. (1986) did not. Crawford-Cabral (1989«) included these taxa with flavescens .