“…11). Wiltshire, 1952Wiltshire, , 1962Wiltshire, , 1964Wiltshire, , 1985Wiltshire, , 1990Berio, 1965;Legrand, 1965;Laporte & Vuattoux, 1975;Robinson, 1975;Holloway, 1977;Common, 1990;Hacker, 1990;Haruta, 1993;Zhang, 1994;Wojtusiak, 1996;Barnett et al, 1999;Yanagita & Nakajima, 1999). The new species M. proverai has so far been confirmed from the Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Zaire, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Saudi Ara bia, Yemen, and Bahrain, and there is strong evidence that all the African and Arabian records of M. frugalis must be referred to M. proverai, which would thus repre sent a discrete African-Arabian vicariant of M. frugalis.…”