Gnathocera cruda cruda Janson, 1877

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 : 93-95

Gnathocera cruda cruda Janson, 1877

Distribution: ANG, DOC, KEN, MAW, TAN.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) MAL.

Historic records:

— Angola (without locality) ( Janson 1877b);

—Malange (= Malanje) (MAL) ( Quedenfeldt 1884);

— Angola (without locality) ( Ferreira 1965);

— Angola (without locality) ( Antoine 2002a).

Material examined: none.

Remarks. Krajcik (2008a) recognized five subspecies, but this is not consensual. For instance, Beinhundner (2017a) listed nine subspecies. Janson (1877b) described the species based on specimens from “Livingstonia, Lake Nyassa”. The synonimization of G. cruda cruda with G. cruda var. major Kolbe, 1897 is probably erroneous (see Antoine 2002a). The latter taxon was described on the basis of a misinterpreted G. cruda , but similar to G. cruda leopoldi Bourgoin, 1929 . The presence of G. cruda cruda in Angola must be considered with some caution (S. Rojkoff, personal communication) (but see remarks under next taxa). Ecological data are not available for this species.