Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) gilleti Janssens 1940

The locality label on the type specimen reads “Bite Angola ” = Bita very close to Luanda (W. Dekoninck, Personal Communication). S. (S.) damarensis Janssens 1940, S. (S.) gilleti and S. (S.) kwiluensis Janssens 1940 are a group of closely related species with distributions centred, respectively, from south to north across the Mega-Kalahari deep sands between northern South Africa and eastern Congo (DRC).