Porphyronota preissi Moser, 1913

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 : 74

Porphyronota preissi Moser, 1913

( Fig. 16c )

Distribution: ANG, ZIM.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) MOX.

Historic records:

—Calombe (=Calomba) (MOX) ( Gomes Alves 1973 sub Porphyronota ruteri Gomes Alves ).

Material examined: Calombe (=Calomba) (11º 50´S, 19º 55´E, 1360 m alt., 218) ( MOX), 4.XI.1954, 1 ♂, Nº 3264, Holotypus (red label), Porphyronota ruteri Gomes Alves, 1973 det., Estudos Apícolas do Ultramar nº 61, Junta de Investigações Coloniais (Entomologia), IICT, MUHNAC .

Remarks. The species was originally described from Rhodesia (= Zimbabwe) ( Moser 1913a). Gomes Alves (1973) sixty years later described the same species from Angola under the name Porphyronota ruteri , which was synonymized with P. preissi by Holm (1990b). Biological and ecological data are not available for this species.

Figures

FIGURE 16. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a, Porphyronota hebraea hebraea (dorsal view), Chianga, HUA, JPCC; b, Porphyronota maculatissima maculatissima (dorsal view), female, Dundo, LNO, IICT; c) Porphyronota preissi (dorsal view), and associated labels, male, Calombe, MOX, IICT. Pseudinca fradei, holotype male, Fazª Stª Cruz, Luso (=Luena), MOX, IICT: d, habitus (dorsal view), and associated labels; e, head and pronotum (dorsal view); f, habitus (ventral view); g and h, parameres (frontal and lateral views, respectively). i, Tetragonorrhina induta (dorsal view), and associated labels, male, Humbe, CNN, MZUC.