Abstract
The African Scarabaeinae genus Sarophorus Erichson, 1847 is distributed from Tanzania in the north to the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Of the 10 species currently recognised (Frolov & Scholtz 2003; Frolov 2004), six are restricted to South Africa (Frolov & Scholtz 2003). These medium-sized (5–10 mm) black to dark brown beetles are characterised by somewhat rectangular, densely punctate bodies, a clypeus that is sinuate medially and rounded to angulate or strongly protruded (as is the case for Sarophorus bidentatus Frolov & Scholtz 2003) at the sides, lateral margins of the elytra that are sinuate at the base, and anterior tibiae with three outer teeth and an acute, downward-curving spur (Frolov & Scholtz 2003; Davis et al. 2008).
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