Anomala condophora Ohaus, 1913

Vitali, Francesco, 2019, Catalogue of the types of the Scarabaeidae in the National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 814, pp. 95-114 : 102-103

Anomala condophora Ohaus, 1913 Figure 9

Anomala condophora Ohaus, 1913: 207 (type locality: “Kondué”).

Syntype.

Kondué / Kassai / Congo Luja // Det. F. Ohaus 1912 / Anomala ♀. / condophora / Ohaus Cotype [handwritten by Ohaus] // Donateur 1025a / Ed, Luja, / Lux[em]b[our]g V. 1907 // 2746 // 1♀.

Remarks.

Ohaus (1913) described this species from an unknown number of females coming from Kondué. In the introduction of his article, Ohaus thanked Ferrant and other directors of European museums for allowing him to retain material for his own collection. The handwritten label implies that part of this material was returned to the museums of origin. The date of the label shows that Luja collected part or all these types during his second mission in Kondué. However, besides this cotype, the MNHNL owns 20 other specimens of both sexes, some donated to MNHNL in 1917 after his fourth mission in Kondué. Some of the earlier specimens might also be types.

Current status.

Mimela condophora (Ohaus, 1913): Krajcik 2012: 162.