Byrrhidium convexum Scholtz & Howden, 1987, 1869

Deschodt, Christian M. & Davis, Adrian L. V., 2017, Transfer of three species of Namakwanus Scholtz & Howden to Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz or to Namaphilus gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 7 (7), pp. 109-114 : 113

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5562912
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5557621
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treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Byrrhidium convexum Scholtz & Howden, 1987
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Byrrhidium convexum Scholtz & Howden, 1987 View in CoL .

Widespread in Namaqualand from the environs of Nuwerus [31.149°S 18.358°E] in the south to Steinkopf [29.266°S 17.734°E] in the north. More or less confined to the Namaqualand Klipkoppe Shrubland vegetation unit as defined by Mucina and Rutherford (2006) GoogleMaps .

Collected some distance from rock hyrax middens among Namaqualand heuweltjies ( Mima-like earth mounds , Lovegrove and Siegfried, 1986), but probably also associated with rock hyraxes.