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Macrocheilus scapularis

Authors/Creators

  • 1. cE 3 c-Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, R. Ernesto de Vasconcelos, Ed. C 2, Campo Grande, 1749 - 016 Lisboa, PORTUGAL. aserrano @ fc. ul. pt; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4282 - 6073

Description

Macrocheilus scapularis (Reiche, 1843)

Figs. 11a, 12a, 13b

Studied material. 1 male: “nº 2805, Congo Belge, P. N.G., II/fe/18,\ Réc. H. de Saeger, 24.XI.1951 \ Miss. H. de Sager ” (MRAC); 1 female: “nº 2873, Zaire: P.N.G., II/gd/10,\ H. de Saeger, 6.XII.1951 \ abords marécageaux” (MRAC).

Remarks. The species has a scattered distribution throughout Central and Oriental Africa (Basilewsky 1960, 1962; Häckel & Farkač 2013). Both MRAC adult specimens were determined by P. Basilewsky. The loan of a MRAC adult male specimen allows the description of the male genitalia for the first time.

Male genitalia (Fig. 13b). Median lobe bossed and slightly dilated in the median region, constricted between basal bulb and shaft, apical margin rounded (dorsal and lateral views), apex downward (lateral view), ostium with one pair of asymmetric lateral thin and extensive scaled sclerotized stripes on dorsum, bending laterally downwards and backwards; left paramere longer than wide, without distal tooth.

Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal.

Notes

Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2023, Afrotropical ground beetles of Macrocheilus Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) description of four new species and faunistic notes, pp. 1-35 in Zootaxa 5256 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7745281

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MRAC
Event date
1951-11-24 , 1951-12-06
Verbatim event date
1951-11-24 , 1951-12-06
Scientific name authorship
Reiche
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Macrocheilus
Species
scapularis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Macrocheilus scapularis (Reiche, 1843) sec. Serrano, 2023

References

  • Basilewsky, P. (1960) Sur le genre Macrocheilus Hope (Col. Carabidae Helluoninae). Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Royale d`Entomologie de Belgique, 96 (3 - 4), 39 - 51.
  • Basilewsky, P. (1962) Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba. Mission H. de Saeger. Carabidae I (Coleoptera Adephaga). Vol. 29. Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo et du Rwanda, Bruxelles, 152 pp.
  • Hackel, M. & Farkac, J. (2013) A checklist of the subfamily Anthiinae Bonelli, 1813 of the World (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Studies and Reports. Taxonomical Series, 9 (2), 261 - 384.