Cossyphodes raffrayi Gestro, 1874

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2013, Cossyphodini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) in South Africa, Namibia and adjacent regions: New species and records, key to genera, and Old World species catalogue, Zootaxa 3721 (4), pp. 351-364 : 359

Cossyphodes raffrayi Gestro, 1874

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Examined type material. None.

New material. Ethiopia (labelled as Abyssin.), 3 ex. ZFMK (coll. Reichensperger).— Yemen (labelled as W Aden Prot.), Dhala, 4800 ft. (1460 m), 14.IX.1937, leg. H. Scott & B. M. Britton, 2 ex. BMNH (det. Basilewsky).— Tanzania (labelled as Africa or.), Katona, Shirati, 1909, 5 ex. HNHM (det. Basilewsky).— Tanzania, Arusha, 1350 m, 8.III.1960, leg. Szunyoghy, 2 ex. HNHM (det. Basilewsky).

Remarks. Obviously, this species reaches also the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen. Unfortunately, this record was unknown when treating the Arabian fauna (Schawaller et al. 2011).

Type locality. " Abyssinie ".

Distribution. Ethiopia (Reichensperger 1913); Yemen, Tanzania (new records).

Figures

FIGURES 21 – 26. Dorsal view of African Cossyphodini. 21. Cossyphodes raffrayi Gestro, 1874, Tanzania, non-type HNHM. 22. Cossyphodes mourgliai Ferrer, 1993, Zambia, holotype ZSM. 23. Cossyphodes uviranus Basilewsky, 1951, Congo, nontype ZFMK. 24. Cossyphodes vandami Andreae, 1961, RSA / Pretoria, paratype MZLU. 25. Paramellops bewicki (Wollaston, 1861), RSA / Matjiesfontein, non-type TMSA. 26. Cossyphodites woodroofei (Péringuey, 1885), South Africa, non-type HNHM. Scale: 1 mm.