Namaphilusgen, 2017

Namaphilusgen View in CoL . nov., Figs 1–2 View Fig View Fig

TYPE SPECIES. Namakwanus endroedyi Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz, 2011 View in CoL , here designated.

Gender of new name: masculine.

DESCRIPTION. Small ( 7.1–9.7 mm long × 4.5–5.8 mm wide) dark brown, rounded and convex beetles.

Head: with two small and short, slightly upturned clypeal teeth; one much smaller tooth medially on lower margin of clypeus.

Pronotum: dark brown, convex with ovoid to round punctures.

Protibia: tridentate in last one-third of outside margin, more or less smooth in first two-thirds.

Elytra: strongly convex, dark brown.

Sterna: mesometasternal suture straight.

Scutellum not visible.

Pygidium: shagreened with small punctures.

DISCUSSION. Morphologically this new genus can easily be separated from Versicorpus by lacking serrations on the outside margins of the front tibiae and by being smaller ( 7.1–9.7 mm long) and more convex than the larger ( 10.1 mm) and more elongate Versicorpus . The clypeus of Namakwanus has much more pronounced clypeal teeth than Namaphilus . The known species in the genus thus currently comprise Namaphilus davisi ( Deschodt & Scholtz, 2007) comb. nov., Namaphilus endroedyi ( Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz, 2011) comb. nov. and Namaphilus ameibensis spec. nov.