Plagiochilus crassipes
Description
* Plagiochilus crassipes (Westwood, 1873)
(Fig. 13a)
Distribution: West and Central Africa, TAN.
Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 2) CUS, HUI, MAL.
Historic records: none
New localities reported: Negola (3,5 km SW) (14º 08´53´´ S, 14º 28´16´´ E, 1613 m alt., 317) (HUI), 8.XII.2012, 1♂, P. Schüle leg., PMC (P. Malec, personal communication).
Material examined: Kibundi (08º 54´33.31´´ S, 16º 03´15.71´´ E, 1170m alt., 95) (MAL), 19.XI.2017, 1♂, 3♀, LT, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC; Cabuta (9º 50´38.39´´ S, 14º 51´22.28´´ E, 814m alt., 128) (CUS), 9.XII.2017, 1♂, 1♀, LT, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC.
Remarks. The species is widespread throughout West and Central Africa (Schoolmeesters 2018). The adult specimens were collected by LT (e.g. Fig. 1c) in open secondary forest (Kibundi) and moist secondary forest (Cabuta). Other biological and ecological data are not available for the species, but see general comments on the genus Coenochilus. It is a new species record for Angola and Huíla, Kwanza Sul and Malanje Provinces.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MAL, CUS , SW, HUI
- Event date
- 2012-12-08 , 2017-11-19
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Plagiochilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Westwood
- Species
- crassipes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2012-12-08 , 2017-11-19/12-09
- Taxonomic concept label
- Plagiochilus crassipes (Westwood, 1873) sec. Serrano, Capela, Nunes & Santos, 2020
References
- 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)