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Spindasis crustaria mysteriosa Clench, 1965, Butt. Liberia : 360, figs. 

 * Spindasis cynica Riley, 1921, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 54 : 247, figs. 



* Spindasis ella (Hevvitson), 1865. 



chaka (Wallengren), 1875. 



* Spindasis ella f. barnesi Stempffer, 1953, Annls Mus. R. Congo beige 27 : 30. 

 Spindasis erna (Staudinger), see phanes. 



*Spindasis homeyeri homeyeri (Dewitz), 1886. 



*Spindasis homeyeri i.fracta Stempffer, 1948, Revue jr. Ent. 15 : 189. 

 Spindasis homeyeri kallimon H. H. Druce, 1905. 



* Spindasis iza (Hewitson), 1865. 

 Spindasis lutosa (Plotz), 1880. 



Spindasis masilikazi Wallengren, see natalensis. 



Spindasis menelas H. H. Druce, 1907. 



Spindasis modestus (Trimen), 1891. 



Spindasis montana Joicey & Talbot, 1924, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley 1 : 545. 



* Spindasis mozambica (Bertoloni), 1851. Fig. Hewitson, 1865, (as natalensis). 



caffer (Trimen), 1868. 



* Spindasis namaqua (Trimen), 1874. 



* Spindasis natalensis (Wcstwood), 185 1. 



masilikazi Wallengren, 1857. 

 Spindasis natalensis f. obscura Aurivillius, 1923. 



* Spindasis nyassae (Butler), 1884. Fig. Butler, 1894. 



* Spindasis phanes (Trimen), 1873. 



erna (Staudinger), 1888. 

 Spindasis scotti Gabriel, 1954, Exped. S.W. Arabia 1937/38 : 378, fig. 

 *Spindasis somalina Butler, 1886. 

 *Spindasis tavetensis Lathy, 1906. 



* Spindasis trimeni trimeni Neave, 1910. 



Spindasis trimeni congolanus Dufranc, 1954, Bull. Annls Soc. R. ent. Belg. 90 : 

 283. 



* Spindasis victoriae (Butler), 1884. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1923. 



* Spindasis waggae E. Sharpe, 1898. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1923. 



Genus LIPAPHNAEUS Aurivillius 



Lipaphnaeus Aurivillius, 1916, Ark. Zool. 10 (14) : 2. Tvpe-species : Aphnaeus spindasoides 



Aurivillius, 1916 (a subspecies of Aphnaeus aderna Plotz, 1880), by original designation. 

 Spindasis Aurivillius (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 332 ; 1923 : 415. 



Eyes, palpi, antennae and legs as in Spindasis. 



Wing shape like that of Spindasis, except that in aderna and loxura the tail at the end of 

 vein ib on the hind wing is wider than that of Spindasis, which is thread-like. 



Venation is not constant in Lipaphnaeus. Vein 8 of the fore wing is very short and often 

 absent. When Aurivillius described spindasoides in 1916 he attributed to it 12 veins in the 

 fore wing and placed it in the genus Aphnaeus, then, at the end of the text, he designated it as 

 type of a " subgenus Lipaphnaeus ", intermediate between Aphnaeus and Spindasis. In 1923 



