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 asLophorrhinadonckieriBourgoin, 1913 in that work is most likely the female of this new species. Analysis of the diagnostic characters of the genusLophorrhinaWestwood, 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 ofLophorrhina, but are remarkably more robust, laterally expanded and with a tridentate margin in both sexes, even though the third tooth in the female and the second and third teeth in the male are virtually obsolete. The general body shape in the new species is also more globose and lacks the typical deplanate and apically tapering elytra of theLophorrhinamales. These and other characters are, in our view, sufficient to justify the erection of a new genus,Lophorrhinidesgen. n., to accommodate the new species, here described asL.muelleraesp. n.The new genus is presumably a mountain specialist, as both known specimens were collected in the southern highlands of Tanzania, at Manow and Rungwe respectively.
