Gnathocera villosa Janson, 1877

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 : 99

Gnathocera villosa Janson, 1877

( Figs. 23b, c )

Distribution: ANG, CAM, DOC.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) MAL.

Historic records:

— Angola (without locality) ( Janson 1877b);

—Malange (= Malanje) (MAL) ( Quedenfeldt 1884);

— Angola (without locality) ( Basilewsky 1949 and Ferreira 1965).

Material examined: Angola, 1 ♀, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº182 (white label), 1 ♂, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 178 (white label), 1♂, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 158 (white label), old collection, box nº IX-78, MZUC ; Angola, 1 ex., Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 159 (white label), old collection, box nº XIV-83, MZUC .

Remarks. The species was originally described on Angolan specimens ( Janson 1877b), but was found later in CAM and DOC ( Krajcik 2008a; Beinhundner 2017a). It seems a rare species and biological and ecological data are not available.

Figures

FIGURE 23. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a, Gnathocera trivittata dorsodiscolor (dorsal view), male, Munenga, CUS, JPCC; b and c, Gnathocera villosa (dorsal views), females, MZUC; d and e, Lansbergia vanderkelleni (dorsal views), habitus and head and pronotum, respectively, MZUC; f and g, Lophorrhina quinquelineata (dorsal views), male and female, respectively, Mussende, CUS, ASC; h, Mecynorhina (Amaurodes) passerinii passerinii (dorsal view), female, Dundo, LNO, IICT; i, Mecynorhina (Mecynorhina) polyphemus confluens (dorsal view), female, MZUC.