1988
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Stéphane Boucher, « Le genre «néotropical» Stephanocephalus Kaup : une aberrante confusion systématique et chorologique avec Malagasalus Gravely (malgache), Didimus Kaup (afrotropical) et Leptaulax Kaup (indo-malais) [Col. Passalidae] », Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, ID : 10.3406/bsef.1988.17557
Stephanocephalus Kaup, 1871, presently containing four «neotropical» species, is in fact a Malagasan and monospecific genus : S. hostilis (Percheron, 1841) = Malagasalus honoratus (Kuwert, 1891), syn. nov. ; S. stellaris Kaup, 1869 = Didimus africanus (Percheron, 1844), syn. nov. (afrotropical) ; S. cazicus Kuwert, 1891 and S. columbinus Kuwert, 1891 belong to Leptaulax Kaup, comb, nov., and are probably L. bicolor (F.) and L. dentatus (F.) (indo-malaysian). The present state of knowledge on the genus Stephanocephalus is discussed.