Rhabdotis aulica aulica (Fabricius, 1781)

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 : 39

Rhabdotis aulica aulica (Fabricius, 1781)

Distribution: ANG, RSA, TAN.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) MOX.

Historic records:

— Zambeze (= Luena River) ( MOX) ( Paulino de Oliveira 1882 sub Rhabdotis aulica Ol. ) .

Material examined: none.

Remarks. There are three subspecies recognized in this species ( Beinhundner 2017a). The nominal subspecies was recorded for Angola by Paulino de Oliveira (1882). The Zambeze locality given by Paulino de Oliveira (1882) is close to the Luena River near the Zambia border in Moxico Province. The larvae instars of R. aulica were described by Donaldson (1987). Biological and ecological data were provided by Holm & Marais (1992).