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Abacetus (Caricus) pseudangulanus Straneo 1952

Description

Abacetus (Caricus) pseudangulanus Straneo, 1952

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Cunene; 2) Bié.

Material examined. Mumbué (Cuanza riverhead) (13° 49´41´´ S, 17° 19´26´´ E, 1511 m alt., 303) (BIÉ), 8‒ 17.XI.2015, 1♂, PF, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC; Catota (2,5 km S) (14° 00´37´´ S, 17° 24´00´´ E, 1532 m alt., 323) (BIÉ), 8‒17.XI.2015, 2♀, PF, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC.

Remarks. An endemic ground beetle species of Angola from which is known so far the male and female types (Straneo 1952). Both adults were sampled through pitfall trapping. The Mumbué specimen was collected in sandy whitish soil within a mixed open herbaceous/bush habitat close to the riverhead together with adults of the tiger beetle E. muata f. parallelestriata and the ground beetles S. lucidus strigiceps, E. intermedius, Systolocranius tibialis and Anthia convexipennis Putzeys, 1880. The Catota specimens were collected through pitfall trapping in sandy clayish reddish soil within a secondary open forest together with adults of some ground beetles (see S. lucidus remarks). It is a new record for the Bié Province.

Notes

Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on pages 210-211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ASC
Event date
2015-11-08
Verbatim event date
2015-11-08/17
Scientific name authorship
Straneo
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Abacetus
Species
pseudangulanus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Abacetus (Caricus) pseudangulanus Straneo, 1952 sec. Serrano, Capela & Santos, 2017

References

  • Straneo, S. L. (1952) I Pterostichini dell`Angola (Coleop. Carabidae). Publicacoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 15, 101 - 136.
  • Putzeys, J. (1880) Etudes sur les insects de l`Afrique que se trouvent au Museum National de Lisbonne. Fam. Cicindelidae et Carabidae. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, 1 Ser., 8 (24), 21 - 48.