Piezophyllus spencei Hope, 1842

Piezophyllus spencei Hope, 1842: 76 .

Tetralobus spencei (Hope, 1842): Gemminger & Harold (1869): 1509. Hopelater spencei (Hope, 1842): Laurent (1967): 100.

Type depository. Neotype, male (BMNH); allotype, female (BMNH).

Type locality. Senegal.

Distribution. Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo.

Literature. Hope (1842): original description; Lacordaire (1857): remark; Candèze (1859): catalogue; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Hyslop (1921): remark; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1935): distributional note; Fleutiaux (1940): remark; Arnett (1955): remark; Basilewsky (1958): remark; Laurent (1967): revision; Girard (1971): catalogue; Costa et al. (1994): revision; Girard (2003): catalogue.