Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) gilleti Janssens 1940

Deschodt, Christian M., Davis, Adrian L. V. & Scholtz, Clarke H., 2015, Status changes, new synonymies, key and descriptions of seven new species in the subgenus Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) Balthasar 1965 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), Zootaxa 3931 (4), pp. 505-527 : 525

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.4.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:918B6F76-B5CA-4FC6-9F32-F499DDE7C420
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6108531
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A327654-5044-9F5F-F5E3-07B1B3C9FA15
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) gilleti Janssens 1940
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Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) gilleti Janssens 1940 View in CoL

The locality label on the type specimen reads “Bite Angola ” = Bita very close to Luanda (W. Dekoninck, Personal Communication). S. (S.) damarensis Janssens 1940 , S. (S.) gilleti and S. (S.) kwiluensis Janssens 1940 are a group of closely related species with distributions centred, respectively, from south to north across the Mega-Kalahari deep sands between northern South Africa and eastern Congo ( DRC).