Proper cleaning of keratin beetles reveals a cryptic species: Phoberus fumarius (Haaf, 1953) from southern Africa is reinstated as valid (Coleoptera: Trogidae) Author Strümpher, Werner P. Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, PO Box 413, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. Author Stals, Riaan South African National Collection of Insects, Agricultural Research Council, Private Bag X 134, Queenswood 0121, Pretoria, South Africa. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-03-16 4942 4 543 557 journal article 7585 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.4.3 ddf1c8ab-ddf2-476d-a319-63046f6d99fa 1175-5326 4612451 38464B00-0721-4C27-98F9-599D862E4CB1 Phoberus MacLeay, 1819 Phoberus MacLeay, 1819: 137–138 (original description); Strümpher et al. 2014: 557–558 (phylogenetics); Strümpher et al. 2016b (reinstated as genus); Zídek 2017: 96–113 (checklist). A bibliography of Phoberus was provided by Strümpher et al. (2016b: 79–80) . Type species: Trox horridus Fabricius, 1775 (by monotypy).