Acylophorus rufipennis Cameron

Lott, Derek A., 2010, The species of Acylophorus Nordmann (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) in continental sub-Saharan Africa, Zootaxa 2402, pp. 1-51 : 45

Acylophorus rufipennis Cameron

Acylophorus rufipennis Cameron, 1959: 117 ; Herman, 2001: 3037.

Cameron described this species in a posthumous publication from two specimens collected by A. Machado from the River Luachimo in Angola. The description is not detailed enough to recognise the species without examination of type material. Two specimens collected from Angola and labelled as types of A. rufipennis are present in the Cameron collection at the BMNH, but the locality on the labels does not match the type locality and they differ markedly in colour and eye size from the description given by Cameron. No matching specimens from Angola can be found in his collection. The two specimens labelled as types are in fact a pale colour form of A. salifi . The true identity of Cameron’s species will remain a matter of speculation, unless the original type material is located. The name is therefore considered to be a nomen dubium.