Ptychodesthes bicostata intermedia Schein, 1943

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 : 104

Ptychodesthes bicostata intermedia Schein, 1943

( Figs. 24c, d )

Distribution: ANG, DOC?

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) ZAI.

Historic records:

—Portugiesisch Congo (ZAI) ( Schein 1943);

— Angola (without locality) ( Ferreira 1965).

Material examined: Angola, 1 ♂, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 56 (white label) , 1♀, Nº 1907 (blue label), nº 57 (white label), old collection, box nº IX-78, MZUC.

Remarks. The subspecies was described on the basis of one female from “Portugiesisch Congo ” ( Schein 1943). It occurs in Angola ( Krajcik 2008a; Beinhundner 2017a), but Schoolmeesters (2018) considers DOC also in its distribution. Some ecological remarks were provided for Ptychodesthes alternata alternata (Klug, 1855) by Holm & Marais (1992).

Figures

FIGURE 24. Cetoniinae species of Angola. a, Pedinorrhina sellata lequeuxi (dorsal view), male, Mussende, CUS, ASC; b, Pedinorrhina subaenea subaenea (dorsal view), MZUC; c and d, Ptychodesthes bicostata intermedia (dorsal views), male and female, respectively, MZUC; e and f, Stephanorrhina (Aphelorrhina) bella bella (dorsal views), male and female, respectively, MZUC; g and h, Stephanorrhina (A.) tibialis tibialis (dorsal views), male, habitus and head and pronotum, respectively, MZUC; i, Stephanorrhina (Stephanorrhina) guttata guttata (dorsal view), and associated labels, female, Luanda, LUA, JPCC.