Goliathus russus, Kolbe, 1884

Maquart, P. O. & Malec, P., 2017, On the distribution and natural history of a rarely encountered species: Goliathus (Fornasinius) klingbeili Zöller, Fiebig, & Schulze, 1995 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), Zootaxa 4341 (3), pp. 441-444 : 443

Key to species of the subgenus Fornassinius (after Wiebes 1968 and De Palma & Di Gennaro 2017)

1. Dorsal colour red (black in rare exceptions) ................................................................................................... G. russus Kolbe, 1884

- Dorsal colour black or brown, often with yellow stripes and dots.................................................................................................... 2

2. Pubescence yellowish brown on metatibiae, mesotibiae, and abdomen ...........................................................................................3

- Pubescence black on the metatibia, mesotibia, and abdomen........................................................................................................... 4

3. Elytra unicolorous, dark brown .............................................................................................................. G. higginsi Westwood, 1874

- Elytra velvet-brown, with yellow-golden dots ........................................................................... G. aureosparsus (van de Poll, 1890)

4. Elytra unicolorous, black, without yellow elytral and pronotal markings ................... G. klingbeili Zöller, Fiebig, & Schulze, 1995

- Elytra brownish black or black, with yellow elytral and pronotal markings .................................................................................... 5

5. Elytra brownish black or black, dorsal pattern consisting of small yellow dots, variably reduced, pronotum with one or more lon- gitudinal yellow stripes ........................................................................................................................... G. fornasini Bertoloni, 1853

- Elytra black, dorsal pattern consisting of small yellow dots, pronotum with no longitudinal stripes, protibia strongly tridentate, mesotibia with external tooth and cephalic apophysis with proximal lateral teeth. ............................................................................ .......................................................................................................................................... G. hermes De Palma & Di Gennaro, 2017