Abstract
Background: Ongoing systematic studies in the African flora necessitate periodic nomenclatural adjustments and corrections.Objectives: To effect requisite nomenclatural changes.Method: Relevant literature was surveyed and type material located and examined.Results: The combination Senecio sonchifolius (L.) J.C.Manning & Magoswana (2017), based on Othonna sonchifolia L., is an illegitimate later homonym for S. sonchifolius (L.) Moench (1802).Conclusions: The name Senecio cymbalarifolius (L.) Less. is the earliest legitimate name in Senecio for the taxon previously known as S. sonchifolius (L.) J.C.Manning & Magoswana, nom. illeg. On internal evidence, we conclude that S. sonchifolius(L.) Moench was intended as a combination based on Cacalia sonchifolia L. and that the citation of the basionym as Cineraria sonchifolia L. was an error.
Highlights
Of the ground-living beetles, Tenebrionidae Latreille 1802 rank as the seventh most speciose group of beetles (Kergoat et al 2014)
In this paper we present photos, depicting 26 species of Tenebrionidae found in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve (VBR) (Figure 3), and representing 16 genera
A total of 36 Pimeliine darkling beetles were sampled distributed in seven tribes
Summary
Of the ground-living beetles, Tenebrionidae Latreille 1802 (darkling beetles) rank as the seventh most speciose group of beetles (Kergoat et al 2014) They are important detritivores and granivores, and constitute a significant food source for reptiles and small mammals, especially in arid and semi-arid environments (Polis et al 1998). The darkling beetles of Africa are poorly known, with few taxonomists available to describe new species, revise groups and offer assistance in determination of specimens. These beetles show possibly higher levels of diversity in the southern hemisphere than in the northern hemisphere, and latitudinal gradients in diversity do not quite follow trends observed north of the equator (Platnick 1991). The largest tribe in South Africa is the Sepidiini Eschscholtz, 1829, or toktokkies, which can be distinguished from other tribes by the presence of a trochantin on the meso-coxae. Koch (1955) provides a key to the tribes
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