Gnathocera Kirby, 1825

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

Genus Gnathocera Kirby, 1825

This is one of the most species rich genera in Africa with more than 70 species/subspecies described (e.g. see Krajcik 2008a), but probably many of them without validity as was already pointed out by Holm & Marais (1992). For instance, Beinhundner (2017a) recognized thirty nine species in the nominal subgenus and one in the subgenus Gnathocerida . This subgenus is treated as a synonym of Gnatocera in Krajcik’s (2008a) catalogue, a criterion not followed by Beinhundner (2017a). Some nomenclatural changes were done by Antoine (2002a) in the G. cruda complex, but were not adopted by Krajcik (2008a). The genus is represented in Angola by thirteen species/subspecies ( Ferreira 1965; Ruter 1967b; Allard 1991; Antoine 2002a). We add one more species in this work.