Published February 25, 2022 | Version v1
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Dymusia cyanea

Description

Dymusia cyanea (Olivier, 1789)

Distribution: BEN, DOC, GBI, GHA, GUI, RCI, SEN, TOG.

Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions): 1) CAC.

Historic records:

— Suzana (=Susana) (CAC) (Brivio 1958).

Material examined: none.

Remarks. The species presents a wide distribution throughout West and Central Africa (Beinhundner 2017b; Schoolmeesters 2019). Some morphological features of D. cyanea (male parameres, scutellum, protibiae) were provided by Beinhundner (2013, 2017a). Biodiversity information (e.g. abundance, habitat preference, phenology) were provided for GHA by Mudge et al. (2012) and Joly (2018). Biological and other ecological data are not available.

Notes

Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2022, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Guinea-Bissau: an annotated checklist and new records, pp. 151-195 in Zootaxa 5104 (2) on page 179, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6280698

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cetoniidae
Genus
Dymusia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Olivier
Species
cyanea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dymusia cyanea (Olivier, 1789) sec. Serrano, 2022

References

  • Brivio, P. C. (1958) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna coleopterologica della Guinea Portoghese. II - Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Scarabaeidae. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 97, 112 - 119.
  • Beinhundner, G. (2017 b) The Cetoniinae of Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Privately published, Euerbach, Germany, 1199 pp.
  • Schoolmeesters, P. (2019) 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, 2019 Annual Checklist. Available from: http: // www. catalogueoflife. org / annual-checklist / 2019 (accessed 12 January 2020)
  • Beinhundner, G. (2013) Description of a new species of Rhinocoeta (Haematonotus) Kraatz 1880 from Democratic Republic of Congo and a new species of Dymusia Burmeister, 1842 from West Africa (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae). Entomologia Africana, 18 (1) 37 - 43.
  • Beinhundner, G. (2017 a) Description of a new species of Dymusia Burmeister from West Africa (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae). Entomologia Africana, 22 (1), 11 - 14.
  • Mudge, A. D., Orozco, J., Philips, T. K. & Antoine, Ph. (2012) The cetoniine fauna of the Upper Guinean forests and savannas of Ghana (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 5, 113 - 174. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187498312 X 635319
  • Joly, C. (2018) Deuxieme contribution a la connaissance des Cetoniidae du Ghana, sous-familles des Cetoniinae et des Trichinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Lambillionea, 118 (1), 28 - 89.