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Ptychodesthes bicostata subsp. intermedia Schein 1943

Description

Ptychodesthes bicostata intermedia Schein, 1943

(Figs. 24c, d)

Distribution: ANG, DOC?

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) ZAI.

Historic records:

—Portugiesisch Congo (ZAI) (Schein 1943);

— Angola (without locality) (Ferreira 1965).

Material examined: Angola, 1 ♂, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 56 (white label), 1♀, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 57 (white label), old collection, box nº IX-78, MZUC.

Remarks. The subspecies was described on the basis of one female from “Portugiesisch Congo ” (Schein 1943). It occurs in Angola (Krajcik 2008a; Beinhundner 2017a), but Schoolmeesters (2018) considers DOC also in its distribution. Some ecological remarks were provided for Ptychodesthes alternata alternata (Klug, 1855) by Holm & Marais (1992).

Notes

Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A., Nunes, Telmo & Santos, Carmen Van-Dú- Nem Neto, 2020, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Angola: a descriptive checklist with new records and synonymic notes, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 4776 (1) on page 104, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4776.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3821288

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References

  • Schein, H. (1943) Die Gattung Ptychodesthes Kraatz (Kol. Cetonid.). Mitteilungen der Munchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 33 (1), 33 - 53.
  • Ferreira, M. C. (1965) Catalogo dos Coleopteros de Angola. Revista de Entomologia de Mocambique, 8 (2), 415 - 1317.
  • Krajcik, M. (2008 a) Cetoniidae of the World. Catalogue - Part I. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Animma. x, Supplement, 1 - 96 + I-XXXVI.
  • Beinhundner, G. (2017 a) The Cetoniinae of Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Privately published, Euerbach, 1199 pp.
  • Schoolmeesters, P. (2018) Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jan 2017). In: Roskov, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P. M., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R. E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L. (Eds.), Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist. Available from: http: // www. catalogueoflife. org / annual-checklist / 2017 (accessed 12 January 2020)
  • Marais, E. & Holm, E. (1992) Type catalogue and bibliography of the Cetoniinae of Sub-Saharan Africa. Cimbebasia Memoir, 8, 1 - 125.