Niphobleta squamipes (Gerstaecker, 1883)

Philips, T. Keith, Mudge, Alan D., Orozco, Jesus, Neidlinger, Robert, Beinhundner, Gerhard & Joly, Claude, 2022, A rich and diverse fauna: an illustrated guide to the cetoniines of Ghana with comparisons to Ivory Coast and Benin (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), Zootaxa 5150 (2), pp. 151-188 : 178

Niphobleta squamipes (Gerstaecker, 1883)

This species has previously been reported from Ghana ( Joly 2001; Mudge et al. 2012). However, after further study, Joly (2018) listed this species as Niphobleta kraatzi (Kolbe, 1892) in place of N. squamipes (confirmed by P. Antoine and C. Joly, personal communication, August 2018). Hence, we do not include N. squamipes as part of Ghana’s fauna until this record can be verified. Five or six species of Niphobleta are currently recognized including three from Ghana: N. dominula Kraatz, 1880 , N. kraatzi, Kolbe, 1892 , and N. niveosparsa (Kraatz, 1880) ( Beinhundner 2017) .