Mecynorhina Hope, 1837

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 : 100

Genus Mecynorhina Hope, 1837

The genus was revised by Holm (1993b) and more recently by De Palma & Frantz (2010). There is some controversy on the species belonging to this genus or to Megalorhina Westwood, 1847 (e.g. see Krajcik 2008a; De Palma & Frantz 2010; Beinhundner 2014b). On the other hand, Megalorhina as well as Amaurodes Westwood, 1844 are sometimes treated under the genus level (e.g. Krajcik 2008a) or under the subgenus level within Mecynorhina ( De Palma & Frantz 2010; Beinhundner 2014b). The genus Mecynorhinella was established by Marais & Holm (1992), but Beinhundner (2017a) treated it under the subgenus level in Mecynorhina genus. Here we follow the last criterion. There are four species/subspecies recorded for Angola ( Paulino de Oliveira 1882; Ferreira 1965). One subspecies is recorded for the first time for this country.