''Anaspis brevicornis'' is a species of beetles of the family

Scraptiidae The family Scraptiidae is a small group of tenebrionoid beetles sometimes called false flower beetles. There are about 400 species in 30 genera with a world-wide distribution. The adults are found on flowers, sometimes in large numbers, but are a ...

. It is endemic to

Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

, where it occurs on the islands of Santo Antão and Fogo.Oromí, Martín, Zurita & Cabrera, 2005 :
Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: Hongos, Plantas y Animales Terrestres.
' Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, p. 84 The species was described by

Thomas Vernon Wollaston Thomas Vernon Wollaston (9 March 1822 – 4 January 1878) was an England, English entomologist and malacologist, becoming especially known for his studies of Coleoptera inhabiting several North Atlantic archipelagoes. He was well-placed sociall ...

in 1867.

References

Scraptiidae Beetles of Africa Beetles described in 1867 Insects of Cape Verde Taxa named by Thomas Vernon Wollaston {{Tenebrionoidea-stub