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Borowiec, L.: Two new species of Spermophagus Schoenherr from South Africa (Coleoptera, Bruchidae: Amblycerinae)

Male — Sternum 5 emarginate to half length. Ventral lobe long, ventral valve pentagonal, internal sac with 10-11 large, spine-like sclerites (Fig. 6). Lateral lobes short, oval, not modified (Fig. 9). Female unknown. Holotype and paratype, males: S. Africa, Transvaal, Nylsvley, 3. II. 1978, cow-dung trap, leg. Dr. S. Endrődi; 2 male paratypes: the same locality, 16.1. 1978, netted, leg. Dr. S. Endrődi; holotype and 2 paratypes deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, 1 paratype in the author's collection. * * * Comments — Both new species and Spermophagus okahandjensis DECELLE, 1973 form a natural group of small species distributed in Namibia and South Africa only. The common characters of this group are the structure of the median lobe in the male genitalia with pentagonal or subpentagonal ventral valve and an internal sac with several spinelike sclerites, the frons with distinct medial keel, and long antennae in the male reaching to 2

/3 of the body length. S. okahandjensis distinctly differs from both new species in its reduced basal denticle on the tarsal claws and greater number of sclerites in the internal sac (Fig. 5). The structure of the lateral lobes in S. okahandjensis is similar to that of S. transvaalensis (Fig. 8). S. endrodii and S. transvaalensis are externally very similar and difficult to distinguish. S. endrodii differs in its strongly modified lateral lobes, unique in structure in the whole genus Spermophagus. -Author's address: DR. LECH BOROWIEC Katedra Zoologii AR Cybulskiego 20 PL 50-205 Wroclaw Poland Figs 1 and 4. Spermophagus endrodii sp. n. 1 = dorsal vestiture, 4 — antenna. — Figs 2-3. S. transvaalensis sp. n. : 2 = dorsal vestiture, 3 = antenna