Plagiochilus angustatus (Westwood, 1873)

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, Zootaxa 4776 (1), pp. 1-130 : 57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4776.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3845630

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1B3C87AA-0029-FFDA-FF1D-FA3FFB24F85A

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scientific name

Plagiochilus angustatus (Westwood, 1873)
status

 

Plagiochilus angustatus (Westwood, 1873)

( Figs. 12g, h View FIGURE 12 )

Distribution: ANG, BEN, CAM, GAB, CON, DOC, SLN, TAN, UGA, ZAM, ZIM.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) LNO; 2) MAL.

Historic records:

—Quango (=Cuango) (LNO) ( Quedenfeldt 1884 sub Anoplocarpus marginatus Quedenfeldt ).

— Angola (without locality) ( Antoine 2010).

Material examined: Carima (Cacuso–Pungandongo) (09º 35´00´´ S, 15º 42´01´´ E, 1117 m alt., 130) ( MAL), 20.XI.2017, 1♂, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. The species was first described from SLN and UGA and given later for other countries, including Angola (e.g. Antoine 2010). Basilewsky (1956) refered for Aspilus gambiensis Burmeister, 1842 that “Selon BOURGOIN, Anoplocarpus marginatus QUEDENFELDT , d’Angola, serait la même espèce”. However, there are not references to this synonymy in any African Catalogue. The adult specimen of Carima was collected feeding on the basis of tomentose leafs of spontaneous herbaceous plants ( Fig. 12h View FIGURE 12 ) in a secondary open forest ( Fig. 10a View FIGURE 10 ). See also Amaurina spoliata remarks. Biological and ecological data are not available for the species, but see the general comments on the genus Coenochilus . It is a new species record for the Malanje Province.

MAL

Botanic Gardens of Malawi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Plagiochilus

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