Abstract
Meriocepheus peregrinus Aoki, Citation1973; Bathocepheus concavus Aoki, Citation1978; and Opisthocepheus kirai Aoki, Citation1976 are redescribed and illustrated based on adult specimens studied by means of optical microscopy. The three genera are redefined.
Acknowledgements
We thank Dr. Hirotsugu Ono from the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan, for his courtesy and for providing the existing type material (coll. Aoki). We express our gratitude to the reviewers of the manuscript for valuable comments towards improving the paper, and to Leone Hudson for her invaluable contribution towards finalizing the draft.
This work is based partly upon research supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the authors, and therefore, the NRF does not accept any liability in regard thereto.