Cg) Hycleus hybridus species group

This group of species was partially defined by Pardo Alcaide (1958a). It is well characterized by the structure of male maxillae and labial palpomeres. The fore portion of maxillary stipes is depressed and variously shaped, but greatly distinct from the posterior portion. We tentatively refer to this group at least the following species: H. hybridus (Marseul, 1872), H. herero (Borchmann, 1940), both from Namibia, H. convexior (Pic, 1909) (and its synonym gridellii Pardo Alcaide, 1958) from eastern Africa, H. ligatus (Marseul, 1870) from eastern Africa and Arabia, erroneously referred to the dubiosus group by Bologna & Turco (2007), and H. cruentatus (Klug, 1845) from Somalia, Ethiopia and Arabia.