Cosmesthes flavosparsa 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 : 22

Cosmesthes flavosparsa Moser, 1912

Distribution: ANG, DOC, ZAM.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) HUA.

Historic records:

—Bailundo (HUA) ( Moser 1912);

— Angola (without locality) ( Ferreira 1965).

Material examined: none.

Remarks. The species was originally described from Angola ( Moser 1912). Some ecological data for the close relative species Cosmesthes lineatocollis Kraatz, 1880 was provided by Mudge et al. (2012), but nothing is known for C. flavosparsa .