niloticus Edwards, 1935

Holotype: Male, Sudan (NHMUK).

Dist.: known to occur in SUDAN and EGYPT —part of the historic material by Hafez & El-Moursy (1956a, 1956b), originally cited as V. vermileo, was recently studied and compared to the holotype of V. niloticus by Kehlmaier (2021).

Refs.: Edwards, 1935: 56 (fig.); Hafez & El-Moursy, 1956a: 287–291 (larv. biol.), 288, 292–293, 295 (figs.), 291– 296 (larv. des.) as V. vermileo; Nagatomi et al., 1999: 21 (key), 22–23 (cat.); Kehlmaier, 2021: 342 (phyl., dist.).