Botswana
Two lizard species are unique to Botswana: the Tsodilo Gecko Pachydactylus tsodiloensis (Global Gecko Association) and a Namib day gecko Rhoptropus braconnieri (Internet Archive).
An
undescribed species of topminnow in
the genus Aplocheilichthys
was discovered in the Okavango Delta during a recent Rapid Biological
Assessment (p. 101 of CI
pdf file).
Invertebrates known only from Botswana include an orb-weaver spider Singafrotypa okavango
(p. 7 of American
Arachnological Society pdf file), a wolf spider Amblyothele albocincta
(ZooKeys),
a jumping spider Sibianor
anansii (jumping-spiders.com),
the leaf-chafers Oedanomerus
hirsutus and Oedanomerus
squamosus (both at Hannetons),
a dung beetle Onthophagus betschuanus
(Catalogue
of Life),
a parasitoid wasp Oreiscelio
badius (MorphBank),
a window-fly Propebrevitrichia
serowensis (Zootaxa
pdf file), a fairy shrimp Branchipodopsis
kalaharensis (Internet
Archive), an ostracod Amphibolocypris
arida (Zootaxa
pdf file), and an endemic genus of flatworm Syringoplana kolasai
(BioOne).
Among about a dozen endemic vascular plants (see National
Red Lists 3 MB
pdf file) are the Tsodilo Daisy Erlangea remifolia
(p. 4 of Kew
pdf file), Euphorbia
venteri (JSTOR),
Blepharis
petalidioides (JSTOR),
Jatropha botswanica
(JSTOR),
Gladiolus rubellus
(JSTOR),
Nesaea minima
(JSTOR),
Eragrostis subglandulosa (Kew), Aristida wildii (JSTOR), Asparagus
botswanicus (SpringerLink), Rennera laxa (JSTOR), and
Neuradopsis
bechuanensis (JSTOR).
Important ecoregions in Botswana include the Okavango (FEOW),
the Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea Woodland (EoE),
and the Zambezian Halophytics (EoE).