Amiantus octocostatus Péringuey 1896
Original description in:
Péringuey, L. 1896. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from South Africa, chiefly from Zambezia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. Vol. 44
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14682244#page/211/mode/1up
Black, covered on the upper part with a dense, light-brown tomentum; head rugose; prothorax gibbous, a little retuse in the anterior part, covered with very broad, confluent punctures; elytra suborbicular, convex, dehiscent behind, and having on each side four sharp, highly raised, slightly tuberculated costae reaching from the base to the posterior declivity, intervals and outer sides smooth; legs densely tomentose; underside glabrous. Length 16, width 10 mm.
Type locality: Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/187994733
The genus Amiantus is very similar to Dichtha, but elytra have straight or wavy-sinuous dorsal carinae.
Kaminski et al. 2020 suggest that Dichtha and Amiantus are paraphyletic with regard to one another. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342229101_First_insights_into_the_phylogeny_of_tok-tokkie_beetles_Tenebrionidae_Molurina_Phanerotomeina_and_examination_of_the_status_of_the_Psammodes_vialis_species-group)
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