Pachnoda viridana karinae Antoine, 2000

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 : 35

Pachnoda viridana karinae Antoine, 2000

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Distribution: ANG.

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

Historic records:

— Kwanza Sul (without locality) (CUS) ( Antoine 2000).

New localities reported: Conda (5 km W) (Serra Cumbira) (11º 8´21.3´´ S, 14º 17´27.2´´ E, 856 m alt., 185) ( CUS), 19-20.XI.2017, 2♂, S. Naumann, E. Ott and H. Sulak leg., PMC (P. Malec, personal communication) .

Material examined: Huambo (12º 46´S, 15º 44´E, 1650 m alt., 256) ( HUA), 1 ♂, IX. 1934, Nº 1984 (blue label), J. Pimentel leg., box nº I-70, MZUC .

Remarks. There are four recognized subspecies within P. viridana Blanchard, 1850 . This subspecies was described by Antoine (2000) and is endemic of Angola ( Beinhundner 2017a; Schoolmeesters 2018). The two specimens of Conda were captured in a coffee plantation (P. Malec, personal communication). Biological and other ecological data are not available for this subspecies. It is a new species record for the Huambo Province.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a, Pachnoda rufovirens (dorsal view), female, Kakande, BIE, ASC; b–d) Pachnoda sinuata flaviventris (dorsal views), females of MZUC, Luanda, LUA, ABSC and Luanda, LUA, ASC, respectively; e and f, Pachnoda vethi, male (dorsal view) and parameres (frontal view), respectively, Humpata, HUI, IICT; g, Pachnoda vethi (dorsal view), female, Humpata, HUI, IICT; h, Pachnoda viridana karinae (dorsal view), male, Huambo, HUA, MZUC; i, Pachnodella impressa (dorsal view), female, MZUC.