Insects - Southern Africa (identified for the 1st time on iNat or difficult to identify)'s Journal

Head thickly clothed with decumbent silky pile. Body sparsely clothed with very elongate, upstanding yellowish hairs. Antennae elongate and slender, fourth segment narrowly fusiform and curved. Pronotum with anterior lobe moderately convex. Hemelytra brachypterous, membrane reduced, mesally not exceeding fifth abdominal tergite, acuminate posteriorly.

Original description (Paradieuches longisetosus) in:
Slater, J.A. 1964. Hemiptera (Heteroptera) Lygaeidae. In: Handstrom, Brinck & Rudebeck (Eds.). South African Animal Life, 10, 15–228.

Photo of holotype (Lund collection): https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=Paradieuches+longisetosus+

Type localiy: South Africa, Western Cape, Swartberg pass, Platberg

iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240020705

Medium sized, with characteristic leather-like sculpture of elytra. Macrosculpture leather-like, microsculpture consists of a fine and widely spaced granulation. Integument, except for the top of
elevations, densely shagreened, matt.
Inner surface of anterior tibia densely denticulate in male. Posterior half of anal sternite deeply impressed. Posterior margin of anal sternite sharply marginate

Detailled description, distribution map and photo in:
Endrody-Younga, S. 1988. Revision of the genus Anomalipus Latreille, 1846
http://the-eis.com/elibrary/sites/default/files/downloads/literature/Revision%20of%20the%20genus%20Anomalipus%20Latreille.pdf
Photo of holotype Plate 21D: https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA090799001_18

Distribution: South-eastern Cape
Type locality: Uitenhage

iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240921834

Diagnosis: primary costa formed by long spines, similar to those in Somaticus (Clinocranion) spinosus, but approximated to suture and situated at about middle of elytron; the epipleural margination double, with the upper edge formed by long spines, together with its submarginal depression entirely visible in dorsal aspect.

Original description in:
Peringuey, L. 1892.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36878898#page/218/mode/1up
Gen. Trachynotus. Latr.
T. Lightfooti.
Oblongus, niger, pilis decumbentibus sericeis tectus; prothorace transverso, lateribus valde angulatis; elytris oblengo-ovatis, sub-deplanatis, postice acuminiatis, disco margineque laterali spinis acutis seriatis in singulo armatis.
Long. 11-13, lat. 4-6 mm.
Oblong, black, covered with short decumbent silky greyish hairs, and also with a white tomentum leaving two rouud denuded spots on each elytron, the postical one the largest of the two; head punctuated, eyes raised; prothorax transverse with the outer sides acute hardly convex; elytra oblongo-ovate, little convex, once and a half as broad in its greatest width as the prothorax, and acuminated behind; each one has on the disk a row of long, sharp spines slightly directed backwards; these spines are equi-distant from one another; the outer margin has also a row of short spines arranged in the same manner and reaching from the shoulder to the apex. Some examples (female) have sometimes traces of an intermediate series of very short spines between the suture and discoidal row. The underside is briefly pilose, the legs very long and slender, the claws and spurs reddish.

Captured near Port Nolloth, Little Naniaqualand, by Mr. R. 'Light-foot, after whom I propose to name it.

Illustrated in: Koch C. 1955. Monograph of the Tenebrionidae of southern Africa Vol I (Tentyriinae, Molurini Trachynotina: Somaticus Hope). Transvaal Museum Memoir 7. Plate V, fig. 9.
https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA0000012_541

iNat observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240751304
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240187362