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
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-12
4776
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1
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journal article
22232
10.11646/zootaxa.4776.1.1
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Genus
Gnathocera
Kirby, 1825
This is one of the most species rich genera in Africa with more than 70 species/subspecies described (
e.g
. see
Krajcik 2008a
), but probably many of them without validity as was already pointed out by
Holm & Marais (1992)
. For instance,
Beinhundner (2017a)
recognized thirty nine species in the nominal subgenus and one in the subgenus
Gnathocerida
. This subgenus is treated as a synonym of
Gnatocera
in
Krajcik’s (2008a)
catalogue, a criterion not followed by
Beinhundner (2017a)
. Some nomenclatural changes were done by
Antoine (2002a)
in the
G. cruda
complex, but were not adopted by
Krajcik (2008a)
. The genus is represented in
Angola
by thirteen species/subspecies (
Ferreira 1965
;
Ruter 1967b
;
Allard 1991
;
Antoine 2002a
). We add one more species in this work.