Neodymantis relata (Distant, 1898), comb. nov.

Dymantis plana (misidentification): Gerstaecker (1873): 397 (catalogue, record: Tanzania). Note. The specimen examined by Gerstaecker had body length 11.5 mm and differed from West African representatives of D. plana only by somewhat paler coloration.

Dymantis relata Distant, 1898: 298 –299 (original description, compared to D. subvittata). Syntypes: 3 specimens (number specified by Distant 1914: 331), South Africa: Transvaal, Lydenburg District (coll. Pretoria Mus. [= TMSA] and coll. Distant, BMNH).

Dymantis relata: Bergroth (1908): 157 (catalogue); Kirkaldy (1909): 182 (catalogue, distribution); Schouteden (1910): 95 (record); Schouteden (1912b): 106 (record); Jeannel (1913): 35 (record, ecology); Schouteden (1913a): 194 (record); Distant (1914): 331 (synonymy, records, distribution); Villiers (1967): 1790 (record, distribution); Linnavuori (1982): 68 – 70 (redescription, key to species, figures, record); Robertson (2009): 276 (catalogue, distribution).

Dymantis velata (incorrect subsequent spelling): Leston (1952): 902 (record).

Dymantis confusa Bergroth, 1914: 448 –450 (original description, comparison with D. plana). Syntypes: 2 ♂♂, Malawi: ‘between Fort Mangoche and Chikala Boma’, about 4000 ft [= 1219 m a.s.l.] (BMNH). Synonymized by Distant (1914: 331).

Dymantis confusa: Distant (1914): 331 (synonymy); Linnavuori (1982): 68 (listed as valid species unknown to the author, diagnostic characters repeated).

Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo (Schouteden 1913a), Malawi (Bergroth 1914, as D. confusa; Distant 1914), Republic of the Congo (Villiers 1967), South Africa (Distant 1898, 1914; Schouteden 1912b; Leston 1952, as ‘British Caffraria’), Tanzania (Schouteden 1910, Jeannel 1913, Linnavuori 1982), Zimbabwe (Distant 1914, Leston 1952).