Leucocelis (Leucocelis) amethystina
Description
Leucocelis (Leucocelis) amethystina (MacLeay, 1938)
(Fig. 9g)
Distribution: ANG, BOW, MOZ, NAB, RSA.
Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) LNO, MAL; 2) BIE, HUI.
Historic records:
—Malange (= Malanje) (MAL), Quango=Cuango (LNO) (Quedenfeldt 1884 sub Leucocelis dysenterica Boh.).
Material examined: Angola, 3 exs, Nº 1907 (blue labels), nºs 165, 172 and 196 (white labels), 1 ex., Nº 1907 (blue label), old collection, box nº IX-78, MZUC; Tchivinguiro (Chão da Cela) (15º 10´S, 13º 18´E, 1600 m alt., 355) (HUI), 23.XI.1957, 1 ex., Nº 2969, Leucocelis amethystina MacLeay (Gomes Alves det.), Estudos Apícolas do Ultramar nº121, Junta de Investigações do Ultramar (Entomologia), IICT, MUHNAC; Satchijamba (13º 44´54.69´´ S, 17º 10´35.03´´ E, 1579 m alt., 303) (BIE), 3.XI.2014, 1♀, BT, A. Serrano leg. & R. Capela, ASC.
Remarks. The Satchijamba adult specimen was sampled by BT (Fig. 1a) in a secondary open forest. See also the remarks for Pachnoda discolour kolbei. Donaldson (1987) described the larvae. Biological and ecological data were provided by Holm & Marais (1992). It is a new species record for the Bié and Huíla Provinces.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1957-11-23
- Family
- Cetoniidae
- Genus
- Leucocelis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- MacLeay
- Species
- amethystina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1957-11-23/2014-11-03
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leucocelis (Leucocelis) amethystina (MacLeay, 1938) sec. Serrano, Capela, Nunes & Santos, 2020
References
- Quedenfeldt, G. (1884) Verzeich niss der von Herrn Major a. D. von Mechow in Angola und am Quango-Strom 1878 - 1881 gesammelten Pectinicornen und Lamellicornen. Berliner Entomologiche Zeitschrift, 28 (2), 265 - 340. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 47918840107
- Donaldson, M. I. J. (1987) Descriptions of, and a key to larvae of some South African Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 123, 1 - 13.
- Marais, E. & Holm, E. (1992) Type catalogue and bibliography of the Cetoniinae of Sub-Saharan Africa. Cimbebasia Memoir, 8, 1 - 125.