Sesquiphaera Bechyne , 1958a
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Sesquiphaera Bechyne, 1958a Figs 95, 96254-256363
=Paropsiderma Bechyné, 1958a syn. n.
References.
Bechyné 1958a: 92; Scherer 1961: 275; Biondi and D’Alessandro 2010a: 411, 413.
Type species.
Sesquiphaera : Sphaeroderma mashonanum Jacoby, 1900: 252 (Mashonaland: Salisbury), by original designation; Paropsiderma : Sphaeroderma anthrax Brancsik, 1910: 185 (Madagascar), designation by monotypy.
Distribution.
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Madagascar, Namibia, Republic of South Africa (Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and KwaZulu-Natal), Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe (Fig. 363).
Ecology.
No information.
Notes.
There are about ten described species. No significant diagnostic characters distinguish Paropsiderma Bechyné from Sesquiphaera . The following new synonymy is therefore proposed: Sesquiphaera Bechyné, 1958 = Paropsiderma Bechyné, 1958 syn. n. Material examined: Paropsiderma anthrax (Brancsik) (det. J. Bechyné), "Madagascar, Joffreville, 13.V.1953, F. Kaiser", 1 specimen (NHMB).
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