Eudicella (Eudicella) gralli Buquet, 1836

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 : 91

Eudicella (Eudicella) gralli Buquet, 1836

( Figs. 20h, i )

Distribution: ANG, BUR, CAM, CON, DOC, GAB, KEN, RCA, RRW, RSA, SUD, TAN, ZAM.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1)?; 2) CNO.

Historic records:

— Angola (without locality) ( Quedenfeldt 1880 and Ferreira 1965 sub Eudicella gralli Buquet var. mechowi Quedenfeldt );

— Angola (without locality) ( Paulino de Oliveira, 1882 sub Ceratorrhina ignita West.);

— Angola (without locality) ( Ruter 1967a, De Palma 2009).

Material examined: Angola, 1 ♂, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 21 (white label), Welwitsch leg., old collection, box nº VI-75, MZUC; C. E. Salazar (=Ndalatando) (9º 18´S, 14º 55´E, 790 m alt., 110) ( CNO), 17.V.1966 , 1 ♂, A. Quis- songo leg., Nº E.8093, nº621, JPCC, MUHNAC.

Remarks. The species is known as the flamboyant flower beetle or striped love beetle. According to De Palma (2009), many of the “old” subspecies (e.g. see Allard 1985) are simple colour varieties, having overlaped distributions. Unfortunately, the Historic records for Angola do not provided precise localities of this species. Its biology and ecology is presumably similar to other Eudicella species. It is a new species record for the Kwanza Norte Province.

Figures

FIGURE 20. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a and b, Chondrorrhina (Plaesiorrhinella) undulata (dorsal views), male and female, respectively, Satchijamba, BIE, ASC; c, Dicronorrhina derbyana derbyana (dorsal view), male, MZUC; d and e, Dicronorrhina johnstoni (dorsal views), male and female, respectively, MZUC; f and g, Eudicella (Cyprolais) loricata loricata (dorsal views), males, MZUC and Mumbué, BIE, ASC, respectively; h and i, Eudicella (Eudicella) gralli (dorsal views), males, MZUC and Salazar (=Ndalatando), CNO, JPCC, respectively.