“…Recently, only 15 Metagynella species are known world-wide: five species are known from the Indo-Malay region, four species from North and Central America, one species from Cuba, one species from Japan, one species from Madagascar, two species from Europe and one species from Africa (Wiśniewski 1993;Wiśniewski & Hirschmann 1993). The African species, Metagynella africana Ryke, 1958, was described from South Africa; it was collected near Potchefstroom (Ryke 1958).…”