A new species of Leucocelis (Amauroleucocelis) Bourgoin, 1913 from Burundi (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae, Leucocelina)

Abstract

Leucocelis (Amauroleucocelis) vingerhoedti sp. nov. is hereby described from specimens collected recently in Burundi. The species is most closely related to the high-altitude L. (A.) jeanneli (Bourgoin, 1913), currently known from Kenya, Tanzania and Cameroon. L. (A.) vingerhoedti differs from the latter species mainly in its dorsal ornamentation, which lacks the yellowish oblique band across the elytral disc and the midline band on pronotum and scutellum that, on the other hand, are typically found in L. (A.) jeanneli. The elytral costae of the new species are also more prominent and elevated than in L. (A.) jeanneli, and finally their aedeagal parameres differ by virtue of both apical and basal extensions being longer but narrower in L. (A.) vingerhoedti by comparison of those of L. (A.) jeanneli. Also, the internal lobes are substantially wider in L. (A.) jeanneli than in L. (A.) vingerhoedti, while the external ones are protruding further forward in the latter species. L. (A.) vingerhoedti occurs in forest habitat and like most other species of the genus is presumably floricolous.