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
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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).