Paramellops bewicki (Wollaston, 1861)

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 : 354

Paramellops bewicki (Wollaston, 1861)

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Cossyphodes bewicki Wollaston, 1861 (not Wasmann 1899) Cossyphodes voigti Reichensperger, 1926 syn.

Examined type material. South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, holotype of bewicki BMNH.— South Africa, Western Cape, Muizenberg (misspelled as Muigenberg), 14.VI.1925, 2 syntypes of voigti ZFMK.

New material. South Africa, Western Cape, Matjiesfontein, Witteberge, 33°16'S / 20°30'E, 1600 m, 25.X.1978, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 15 ex. TMSA, 4 ex. SMNS.— South Africa, Western Cape, 15 km N Bredasdorp, 34°24'S / 20°02'E, 20.IX.1985, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 1 ex. TMSA.

Type localities. "Cape of Good Hope, Atlantic side" ( bewicki ); "Cape, Muizenberg" ( voigti ) (misspelled as Muigenberg by Basilewsky 1952).

Distribution. South Africa (Western Cape).

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.