Plagiochilus dupeyi Bourgoin, 1928

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 : 59

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3845449

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Plagiochilus dupeyi Bourgoin, 1928
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* Plagiochilus dupeyi Bourgoin, 1928 View in CoL

( Figs. 13b, c, d View FIGURE 13 )

Distribution: ANG, COM.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) LNO.

Historic records:

—Dundo (LNO) ( Gomes Alves 1959 sub Coenochilus emarginatus Westwood ).

Material examined: Dundo (7º 22´S, 20º 50´E, 1470 m alt., 51) ( LNO), -. X.1948, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Nº 2148, Junta de Investigações Coloniais (Entomologia), Coenochilus emarginatus Westwood Gomes Alves det. 1956, IICT, MUH- NAC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. The species was described from CON ( Bourgoin 1928). The species reported for Angola by Gomes Alves (1959) under Coenochilus emarginatus Westwood, 1873 name should belong to Plagiochilus dupeyi (S. Rojkoff, personal communication). However, some features of this species do not conform to the IICT specimens [e.g. the posterior angles of the pronotum are largely round, not “obtus mais à sommet vif” ( Bourgoin 1928)]. The dorsal view of the parameres of the Dundo male specimen ( Fig. 26c View FIGURE 26 ) fit well the figure given by Schein (1954a, Fig. 43) for Coenochilus impressus ( Moser, 1911) , but not the lateral view (fig. 26d). Schein (1954a) postulated also that C. impressus could be synonym of Coenochilus emarginatus (“Es wäre möglich, dass impressus identisch ist mit dem mir in natura unbekannten emarginatus Westwood 1873 ”), considering this species an incertae sedis. The adult specimens of IICT fit well the figure 1 (dorsal habitus) given by Westwood (1873) in plate XII for Coenochilus emarginatus , but without the study of the type of Westwood, it is impossible to confirm this identification. It is with some caution that we ascribe these two specimens to Plagiochilus dupeyi . 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 Angola and the Lunda Norte Province.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Plagiochilus

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