Scaptocnemis segregis Péringuey, 1901

Gillett, Conrad P. D. T. & Barr, Iain, 2018, New Country Records of Scarab Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Swaziland and Zambia, The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3), pp. 433-438 : 437

Scaptocnemis segregis Péringuey, 1901

Previously recorded from Burundi, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania ( Ferreira 1972).

New country record for Zambia: Eighteen specimens, 30 km SSW of Kitwe, 7–19 December 2011. Specimens were attracted in abundance to pitfall traps baited with fresh cattle dung set in open miombo woodland .

Swaziland’ s scarabaeine fauna is notably similar to that of the adjacent portions of its two much larger neighbors - South Africa to the south, west, and north, and Mozambique to the east – given the fact that all six newly recorded species from Swaziland have been recorded from those countries. It is worth noting that two of the species newly recorded for Zambia, C. peregrinus and S. segregis , belong to monotypic genera that are evidently not commonly recorded, and the present new records do considerably expand both of their known geographic ranges in tropical Africa.