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Acrothyrea (Acrothyrea) rufofemorata

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Description

Acrothyrea (Acrothyrea) rufofemorata (Burmeister, 1842)

(Figs. 8g, h)

Distribution: ANG, KEN, RSA.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) MAL.

Historic records:

—Pungo Andongo (MAL) (Harold 1879 sub Leucocelis rufofemorata Burmeister);

— Angola (without locality) (Ferreira 1965).

Material examined: Angola, 1 ♀, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 170 (white label), old collection, box nº IX-78, MZUC.

Remarks. The species has a scattered known distribution throughout southern and eastern Africa (Ferreira 1965, Beinhundner 2017a). Some ecological notes were given by Holm & Marais (1992). Taking into account the artificial breeding conditions, Malec & Šípek (2017) included this species in their group 3.

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 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4776.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3821288

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1B3C87AA003BFFC8FF1DFD22FB2AFBD9

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3821304 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4776.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3821288 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E705FFD20011FFE2FF8AFFFAFFA4FFA6 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/5A3743A2-9E64-45E8-920D-92C9ED9CAB5A (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/1B3C87AA003BFFC8FF1DFD22FB2AFBD9 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164123853 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22232/taxon/1B3C87AA003BFFC8FF1DFD22FB2AFBD9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Cetoniidae
Genus
Acrothyrea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Burmeister
Species
rufofemorata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Acrothyrea (Acrothyrea) rufofemorata (Burmeister, 1842) sec. Serrano, Capela, Nunes & Santos, 2020

References

  • Harold, E. (1879) Bericht uber die von Herren A. v. Homeyer und P. Pogge in Angola und im Lunda-Reiche gesammelten Coleopteren. Coleopterologische Hefte, 16, 1 - 224.
  • Ferreira, M. C. (1965) Catalogo dos Coleopteros de Angola. Revista de Entomologia de Mocambique, 8 (2), 415 - 1317.
  • Beinhundner, G. (2017 a) The Cetoniinae of Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Privately published, Euerbach, 1199 pp.
  • Marais, E. & Holm, E. (1992) Type catalogue and bibliography of the Cetoniinae of Sub-Saharan Africa. Cimbebasia Memoir, 8, 1 - 125.
  • Malec, P. & Sipek, P. (2017) Additional notes on the biology and ecology of the cetoniine fauna of Eastern Cape (EC) and Kwa- Zulu-Natal (KZN) and remarks on captive breeding of these beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae). Cetoniimania, Nouvelle Serie, 12, 35 - 75.