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Calathus complanatus subsp. vandeli Colas & Mateus

  • 1. LIBRe - Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 17 (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13), 00014 Helsinki, Finland. & National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC), Rua da Escola Politécnica 56, 1250 - 102 Lisboa, Portugal.
  • 2. LIBRe - Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 17 (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13), 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
  • 3. LIBRe - Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 17 (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13), 00014 Helsinki, Finland. & IUCN SSC Atlantic Island Invertebrates Specialist Group, 9700 - 042 Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal.

Description

Calathus complanatus vandeli Colas & Mateus

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Material examined: CH: Ilhéu Chão, 21.X.1991, 1 male, 5.IX.2014, 8 males, 9 females, DS, I. Silva leg., ASC. DG: Eira, 17.IV.2012, 1 male, 1 female, DS, A. Serrano et al. leg., ASC; Planalto Sul, 11.V.2011, 4 males, 5 females, DS, I. Silva leg., ASC; Planalto Sul, 27.IV.2011, 4 males, 3 females, 17.IV.2012, 10 males, 3 females, DS, 27.IV-11.V.2011, 9 males, 5 females, PF, A. Serrano et al. leg., ASC. BU: Bugio Sul, 27.IV.2011, 1 female, DS, A. Serrano et al. leg., ASC; Planalto Sul, 15.IV.2012, 1 female, DS, A. Serrano leg., ASC; Planalto Sul, 18.XI.2015, 1 male, 2 females, DS, I. Silva leg., ASC.

Remarks: An endemic subspecies of Desertas, occurring in all three islands. The nominal subspecies is found on Madeira Island. It is a common pratincolous ground-dwelling subspecies frequently found beneath stones and syntopic with S. abbreviatus desertarum and N. cimensis cimensis.

Notes

Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Aguiar, Carlos A. S., Cardoso, Pedro, Pereira, Fernando, Prado, Catarina, Rego, Carla, Silva, Isamberto & Boieiro, Mário, 2025, Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Desertas Islands (Madeira archipelago, Portugal): description of a new subspecies and faunistic notes, pp. 397-416 in Zootaxa 5683 (3) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5683.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/17016142

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