Melaphe Cook 1904

Melaphe Cook, 1904 Oxyurus vestitus C. L. Koch, 1847 Cook (1904): 55. Preoccupied and replaced Description Diagnosis The genus is characterised by the retention of a distinct sternite between the gonocoxae and by various details of gonopodal structure. Coxite simple, without apophyses; telopodites long and slender, in situ crossing each other distally, each arcuately curved anteroventrad, with neither prefemoral nor femoral processes (Hoffman 1962). Distribution Mediterranean Region, North Africa and Near East (Morocco, Algeria, Cyprus and Turkey), but one species in Ethiopia.