G. it. Ent., 12 (56): 395-412
May 2011
The Afrotropical species of the genus Afromorgus Scholtz, 1986
1st note:
A. melancholicus (Fahraeus, 1857) and its closest relatives
(Coleoptera Trogidae)
by
R. PITTINO
Abstract - The widespread Afrotropical Afromorgus melancholicus (Fahraeus, 1857) and its closest allies are hereby studied and illustrated chiefly on the base of their distinctive male genitalia. A. melancholicus “sensu lato” is found to actually include five distinct twin species, namely: A. melancholicus (Fahraeus, 1857), A. fenestrellus (Balthasar, 1939), previously synonymized with the former, and three new species: A. drumonti n. sp., inhabiting the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola (type loc.: Bas-Congo, Banana-Boma), A. bayoni n. sp. from Uganda (t.l.: Bussu Busoga), and A. benadirensis n. sp. from Somalia (t.l.: Benadir reg., 7 km N of Mogadishu).
