| | | Kind of type | Full locality |
| | | [not recorded as a type] | West-Central Tropical Africa, Zaire |
| | | [not recorded as a type] | Northeast Tropical Africa, Ethiopia |
| | | [not recorded as a type] | East Tropical Africa, Uganda |
| | | [not recorded as a type] | South Tropical Africa, Malawi |
| | | [not recorded as a type] | South Tropical Africa, Mozambique |
| | | [not recorded as a type] | South Tropical Africa, Zambia |
| | | [not recorded as a type] | South Tropical Africa, Zimbabwe |
| | | [not recorded as a type] | Southern Africa, Botswana |
| | | syntype of subspecies Phaeocatantops decoratus decoratus (Gerstaecker, 1869) | East Tropical Africa, Tanzania: Zanzibar |
| | | syntype of subspecies Phaeocatantops decoratus decoratus (Gerstaecker, 1869) | East Tropical Africa, Kenya |