Phoberus capensis (Scholtz, 1979)

Phoberus capensis (Scholtz, 1979) View in CoL / Phoberus nasutus (Harold, 1872)

This identification is ambiguous. Sharratt et al. (2000: 142) presented the identification in the format we maintain above, albeit that both species names were combined with the genus name Trox Fabricius. Sebastian Endrödy-Younga , then of the TMSA, made the identification in 1998, but voucher specimens could not be traced in the TMSA beetle collection. Phoberus capensis and Phoberus nasutus are morphologically similar to each other, shown to be sister species by Strümpher et al. (2014b).

SOUTH AFRICA: WESTERN CAPE. Specimens were collected in the dark zone of the Table Mountain caves on the Cape Peninsula. Microchiropteran bats were present throughout the dark zone of the cave where the beetles were collected ( Sharratt et al., 2000). We interpret this as an incidental occurrence of the Trogidae in a cave .