Cymophorus Kirby, 1827

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 : 60

Genus Cymophorus Kirby, 1827

The genus was revised by Schein (1954b) and is distributed throughout the Afrotropical and Oriental Regions. There are seven recognized subgenera; four of them (Clydonophorus Kraatz, 1899, Eucymophorus Schein, 1954, Neocymophorus Schein, 1954 and Syntomopteryx Kraatz, 1900) were recorded for Angola, each one with one species ( Quedenfeldt 1884; Schein 1954b; Rojkoff 2011a). The subgenus Cymophorus (Syntomopteryx) was briefly treated by Rojkoff (2011a). There are five adult specimens of this genus from Angola (without localities) deposited in the “old collections” of MZUC collected by the Portuguese Explorers Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens and probably by the naturalist José Anchieta in the second half of the 19 th century. Unfortunately, due to their damaged external morphological conditions (e.g. partial absence of scales, missing or incomplete legs), we can not ascribe them with certainty to any species.