Chlorocala smaragdina angolensis ( Schauer, 1941 )

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 : 84

Chlorocala smaragdina angolensis ( Schauer, 1941)

Distribution: ANG.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) BGO.

Historic records:

—Dembos (BGO) ( Schauer 1941 and Ferreira 1965 sub Smaragdesthes smaragdina angolensis Schauer ).

Material examined: none.

Remarks. This is an enigmatic taxon. We did not find any record in Marais & Holm (1992), Sakai & Nagai (1998), Krajcik (2008a) or Beinhundner (2017a). The subspecies was briefly described by Schauer (1941) in a key of the representatives of the genus Smaragdesthes . While Beinhundner (2017a) considers C. smaragdina as a subspecies of C. africana, Schoolmeesters (2018) lists it as a valid species. Chlorocala smaragdina angolensis seems to be an endemic subspecies of Angola ( Schauer 1941), but the validity of the taxon is dubious. The larva of the third instar of C. smaragdina was described by Jerath & Unny (1965). Ecological data are not available for this subspecies.