Tatera phillipsi (de Winton, 1898) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 1:253.

TYPE LOCALITY: Somalia, Hanka Dadi .

DISTRIBUTION: Somalia and the Rift Valley in Ethiopia and Kenya (see Bates, 1988).

SYNONYMS: bodessana, umbrosa.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Taterona . Revised by Bates (1988). The form minusculus is most probably synonymous with either T. phillipsi or T. robusta (Bates, 1988) .