The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Angola: a descriptive checklist with new records and synonymic notes
Author
Serrano, Artur R. M.
Author
Capela, Rúben A.
Author
Nunes, Telmo
Author
Santos, Carmen Van-Dú- Nem Neto
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-12
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Leucocelis
(
Leucocelis
)
haroldi
(
Kraatz, 1880
)
(
Figs. 10c, d
)
Distribution
: ANG.
Distribution in
Angola
(Provinces):
1) HUI; 2) HUA.
Historic records:
—Humpata (HUI) (
Kraatz 1880
sub
Oxythyrea haroldi
Kraatz
);
—
Angola
(without locality) (
Ferreira 1965
).
New localities reported:
Cacula (
10 km
SW
) (coord. not available,? alt., 317) (
HUI
),
4-6.XI.2011
,
1 ♂
,
P. Schüle
leg., PMC (
P. Malec
, personal communication)
.
Material examined:
Angola
, 2 exs, Nº 1907 (blue labels), nº 171 e 195 (white labels), old collection, box nº IX-78, MZUC;
Tchivinguiro
(
Chão
da Cela
) (
15º 10´S
,
13º 18´E
,
1600 m
alt., 355) (
HUI
),
25.XI.1957
,
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
, Nº 2970,
Leucocelis amethystina
MacLeay
(
Gomes Alves
det.),
Estudos Apícolas do Ultramar
nº122,
Junta de Investigações do Ultramar
(Entomologia), IICT, MUHNAC; Nova Lisboa (=
Huambo
) (
12º 46´S
,
15º 44´E
,
1650 m
alt., 256) (
HUA
),
15.XII.1974
,
2♂
,
2♀
, DO,
A. Serrano
leg., ASC
.
Remarks.
The species was described from
Angola
(
Kraatz 1880
;
Beinhundner 2017a
;
Schoolmeesters 2018
) and is endemic of this country. The
Huambo
adult specimens were sampled on flowers in a meadow. The adult specimens of
Huambo
and Tchivinguiro present the pronotum totally black (
e.g.
Fig. 10d
). Biological and ecological data were provided by
Holm & Marais (1992)
. It is a new species record for the
Huambo Province
.