A new species of fruit chafer from iSimangaliso Wetland Park by Prof Renzo Perissinotto, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
This new species of beetle is only known from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal. Material from Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Durban Natural Science Museum, Iziko South African Museum and the National Collection of Insects of the Agricultural Research Council was used for this paper. See the full paper: Perissinotto R (2017) Description of a new species of Lamellothyrea Krikken (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae) from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). ZooKeys 688: 35–48. doi:10.3897/zookeys.688.13632.
Image: Lamellothyrea isimangaliso sp. n. in its natural habitat at St Lucia Estuary (Photo: Lynette Clennell, March 2009). Part of: Perissinotto R (2017) Description of a new species of Lamellothyrea Krikken (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae) from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). ZooKeys 688: 35–48. doi:10.3897/zookeys.688.13632.