“…A further two species, A. caerulea Bartsch, 2016 from South Africa and A. haematopis (Fawcett, 1916), widespread from the Arabian Peninsula to Kenya and Botswana, were added by bArtsch (2016). The closest relative of Afromelittia is the American genus Eichlinia Gorbunov, 2020. In 1992, Dr. MichAel Gruschwitz, a biologist and friend of the second author, carried out a zoological sur vey in The Gambia, West Africa, supported by the Gam bian Wildlife Conservation Department. Equipped with some artificial pheromones composed for various Central European Sesiidae and with the request to try them out on occasion during the survey, he succeeded in attracting two males of a conspicuous, large Sesiidae species and caught one of them.…”