Tmesorrhina iris saundersi Westwood, 1854

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 : 109

Tmesorrhina iris saundersi Westwood, 1854

( Fig. 25g )

Distribution: ANG, CAM, CON, DOC, RCI, UGA.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) ZAI; 2) MAL.

Historic records:

—S. Salvador (= M’banza-Kongo) (ZAI) ( Burgeon 1944).

Material examined: Kibundi (08º 54´33.31´´ S, 16º 03´15.71´´ E, 1170m alt., 95) ( MAL), 19.XI.2017, 1♀, DO, A. Serrano leg., ASC .

Remarks. Burgeon (1944) recorded the subspecies for S. Salvador, nowadays M’banza Congo (also spelled Mbanza Congo, M’banza Kongo, or Mbanza Kongo), a city located in northwestern Angola, based on material deposited in the actual “Muséum des sciences naturelles de Belgique ”. The nominal subspecies could be misinterpreted with this subspecies. The Kibundi adult specimen was captured by DO on a white flower of a tree in an open secondary forest. It is a new subspecies record for the Malanje Province.

Figures

FIGURE 25. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a and b, Stephanorrhina (Stephanorrhina) guttata guttata (dorsal views), male, habitus and head and pronotum, respectively, MZUC; c, Taurhina (Rhamphorrhina) splendens (dorsal view), female, MZUC; d and e, Taurhina (Taurhina) longiceps longiceps (dorsal views), male and female, respectively, MZUC; f, Taurhina (T.) longiceps longiceps (dorsal view), male, Salazar (=Ndalatando), CNO, ABSC; g, Tmesorrhina iris saundersi (dorsal view), female, Kibundi, MAL, ASC; h and i, Tmesorrhina laeta burgeoni, male (dorsal view) and parameres (frontal view), respectively, Mussende, CUS, ASC.