Coenochilus angolensis ( Moser, 1912 )

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 : 53

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3845676

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scientific name

Coenochilus angolensis ( Moser, 1912 )
status

 

Coenochilus angolensis ( Moser, 1912)

Distribution: ANG.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) HUA; 2) BIE.

Historic records:

— Angola (without locality) ( Moser 1912 sub Xenogenius angolensis Moser );

— Angola (without locality) ( Ferreira 1965);

—Bailundo, Caconda (HUA) ( Schein 1954a).

New localities reported: Calucinga (coord. not available, 1766 m alt., 189) (BIE), 17.XI.2013, 1 ♂, P. Schüle leg., PMC (P. Malec, personal communication) .

Material examined: none.

Remarks. A species within the C. glabratus group (sensu Schein 1954a). It was described from Angola ( Moser 1912) and is endemic of this country ( Schein 1954a; Krajcik 2008b). Biological and ecological data are not available for the species, but see Mudge et al. (2012) for general comments on habitat preference and abundance of some species of this genus in Ghana. See also general comments in Schein (1954a) and the remarks under the genus Coenochilus . It is a new species record for the Bié Province.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cetoniidae

Genus

Coenochilus

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