Lophorrhinidesmuellerae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae): a new genus and species from southern Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: A male cetoniine specimen recently submitted for identification from the Ditsong Museum of Natural History (Pretoria, South Africa) has been found to represent a yet unknown species. A review of the recently published book of Beinhundner (2017) has further revealed that one of the specimens mistakenly figured as Lophorrhinadonckieri Bourgoin, 1913 in that work is most likely the female of this new species. Analysis of the diagnostic characters of the genus Lophorrhina Westwood, 1842 shows that the new species differs in several key areas. In particular, the clypeal armature is virtually identical in both sexes, the male protibiae are not typically elongate and narrow as in all the members of Lophorrhina, but are remarkably more robust, laterally expanded and with a tri

SUBMITTER: Perissinotto R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6445823 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature