Hegemus peregrinus ( Harold, 1878 )

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 : 110-112

Hegemus peregrinus ( Harold, 1878)

( Figs. 26h, i , 27a )

Distribution: ANG.

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) HUA, MAL; 2) HUI.

Historic records:

—“Inneren Guinea ” ( Angola, without locality) ( Harold 1878 sub Fornasinius peregrinus Har. );

—Pungo Andongo (MAL) ( Ferreira 1965);

— Malanje, Pungo Andongo (MAL), Caconda (HUA) ( Sakai & Nagai 1998).

Material examined: Angola, 1♀, Nº 1907 (blue label), old collection, box nº XIV-83, sub Hegemus peregrinus Har. (white label) and Heliocopris japetus Klub (white label marginated by black line), MZUC; Angola, 1 ♀, nº 1907 (blue label), nº 28 (white label), old collection, box nº XIV-83, sub Goliathus peregrinus Har. , MZUC; Tchivinguiro (15º 10´S, 13º 18´E, 1600 m alt., 355) ( HUI), 1♀,?. XI.1961, M. Cabral leg., nº 1966, JPCC, MUHNAC.

Remarks. An Angolan endemic species described by Harold (1878) based on specimen(s) from Pungo Andongo ( Sakai & Nagai 1998; Krajcik 2008a; Beihnundner 2017a). Di Gennaro (2014b) provided some data on the biology and ecology of this genus namely on the species Hegemus pluto (Raffray, 1880) . It is a new species record for the Huíla Province.

Figures

FIGURE 26. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a, Tmesorrhina laeta burgeoni (dorsal view), female, Mussende, CUS, ASC; b–d, Tmesorrhina tridens tridens, male (dorsal view), parameres (frontal view) and female (dorsal view), respectively, Carima, MAL, ASC; e, Tmesorrhina viridicyanea (dorsal view), female, Mumbué, BIE, ASC; f and g, Goliathus goliatus (dorsal views), and associated labels, male and female, respectively, Cabinda, JPCC; h and i, Hegemus peregrinus (dorsal views), and associated old identification labels, females, MZUC.

FIGURE 27. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a, Hegemus peregrinus (dorsal view), female, Huíla, HUI, JPCC; b, Hypselogenia geotrupina geotrupina (dorsal view), female, MZUC; c and d, Pseudoclinteria infuscata (dorsal views), male and female, respectively, Satchijamba, BIE, ASC; e, Stethodesma strachani strachani (dorsal view), male, Satchijamba, BIE, ASC; f and g, Platygenia barbata (dorsal views), male and female, respectively, Dundo, LNO, IICT; h, Clastocnemis quadrimaculatus quadrimaculatus (dorsal view), male, Dundo, LNO, IICT; i) Myodermum alutaceum (dorsal view), male, Mussende, CUS, ASC.