Dischista cincta cincta (De Geer, 1778)

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 : 22-23

Dischista cincta cincta (De Geer, 1778)

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Distribution: ANG, BOW, MOZ, NAB, RSA, ZIM.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) CNN, HUI.

Historic records:

—Humbe (CNN), Huíla (HUI) ( Paulino de Oliveira 1882, sub Cetonia cincta De Geer ).

Material examined: Humbe (16º 41´S, 14º 54´E, 1100 m alt., 422) ( CNN), 1 ♀, Nº 1895 (blue label), nº 98 (white label), 1 ♀, Nº 2126 (blue label), nº 101 (white label), Anchieta leg., old collection, box VI-75, MZUC .

Remarks. The species was recorded for Angola by Paulino de Oliveira (1882), but not listed to this country in

Ferreira’s catalogue (1965) nor in Beinhundner’s monograph (2017a). This species is often confused with the next ones. The larvae instars were described by Donaldson (1987). Biological and ecological data on D. cincta were provided by Holm & Marais (1992). Taking into account the artificial breeding conditions, Malec & Šípek (2017) included this species in their group 4 (species requiring a special feeding substrate composition).

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FIGURE 2. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a, Anelaphinis dominula (dorsal view), MZUC; b and c, Atrichelaphinis (Atrichelaphinis) nigropunctulata (dorsal and ventral views, respectively), female, MZUC; d, Dischista cincta cincta (dorsal view), Humbe, CNN, MZUC; e–g, Dischista lizleri, female (dorsal view), head and pronotum (dorsal view) and female (ventral view), respectively, Humbe, CNN, MZUC; h, Dischista rufa (dorsal view), and associated labels, MZUC; i, Dolichosthetus angolensis (dorsal view), male, Mussulo, LUA, ASC.