P. Bordat, NOTES ABOUT THE AFROTROPICAL GENUS DREPAN OCANTHUS PERINGUEY (COLEOPTERA, SCARABAEOIDEA, APHODIIDAE), Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 29(4), 1993, pp. 371-385
Five species are recorded and figured. Three new taxa are described (P
seudodrepanocanthus, n. subg., D. (D.) mineti, n. sp., D. (P.) obscuru
s, n. sp.). The lectotypes of five species are designated (D. lineatus
, D. acanthotarsis, D. connexus, D. spinitarsis, D. nasutus). A new sy
nonym is given (D. connexus = D. nasutus). D. spinitarsis becomes bona
species again. Pseudoxyomus is reduced at subgeneric rank.