Crocidium namaquense Hesse, 1963 (Figs 12­13)

Crocidium namaquense Hesse 1963: 279 ­280, 287; Hull, 1973: 185; Bowden, 1980: 399; Evenhuis

& Greathead, 1999: 216.

Male genitalia: gonocoxa elongated; distiphallus long, surpassing apex of posterior process of gonocoxa by a distance equivalent to its length; lateral aedeagal apodeme not surpassing gonocoxal margins; gonostylus hook shaped (Fig. 12).

Spermathecae: spermathecae very small and oblong, with a membranous triangular caput on its ends and longitudinal axis equivalent to the length of sperm pump; spermathecal ducts 7 times longer than sperm pump, enlarged on apical portion and on basal ones, before sperm pump, uniting to form a short common spermathecal duct; sperm pump placed at nearly basal 1/3 of the spermathecal duct; sclerotized collars of sperm pumps smaller on basal ends than on apical ones. (Fig. 13).

Material examined: Paratypes. South Africa. Northern Cape: Knersvlakte, 3 males (one dissected) and 3 females (one dissected), Oct. 1939, (collector unknown). Deposited in the South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.