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Gnathocera trivialis Gerstaecker 1883

Description

Gnathocera trivialis Gerstaecker, 1883

(Fig. 22f)

Distribution: ANG, DOC, TAN.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) LNO, UIG (?).

Historic records:

—Muita (Luembe) (LNO) (Gomes Alves 1959 sub G. angolensis trivialis Gerst., Ferreira 1965 sub G. angolensis var. trivialis Gerst.).

Material examined: Muita (Luembe) (7º 48´S, 21º 26´E, 700 m alt., 69) (LNO), 6.VI.1948, 4 ♂, 2 ♀, Nº 1125, Junta de Investigações Coloniais (Entomologia), IICT, MUNHAC.

Remarks. The species was described for Malimbe in West Africa without references to any particular country, but to von Mechow sendings (Gerstaecker 1883). Malimbe seems to be a village located in the Uíge Province of Angola. Gnathocera trivialis was considered a synonym of G. angolensis (Krajcik 2008a; Schoolmeesters 2018), but Marais & Holm (1992) and more recently Beinhundner (2017a) recognized it as a valid species. The presence of adult specimens of G. angolensis and of G. trivialis in the same date and site in Muita (syntopic) justify the species

status of the latter taxon (see also the remarks under G. angolensis). Biological or ecological data are not available for this species.

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 pages 96-97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4776.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3821288

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LNO
Event date
1948-06-06
Verbatim event date
1948-06-06
Scientific name authorship
Gerstaecker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cetoniidae
Genus
Gnathocera
Species
trivialis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gnathocera trivialis Gerstaecker, 1883 sec. Serrano, Capela, Nunes & Santos, 2020

References

  • Gomes Alves, M. G. (1959) Cetonideos da Africa portuguesa. Memorias da Junta de Investigacao do Ultramar, 8, 63 - 88, pls. 1 - 8.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Beinhundner, G. (2017 a) The Cetoniinae of Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Privately published, Euerbach, 1199 pp.