Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Author
Serrano, Artur R. M.
Author
Capela, Rúben A.
Author
Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-23
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2
201
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journal article
31353
10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
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Calosoma
(
Calosoma
)
planicolle
Chaudoir, 1869
Distribution in
Angola
(Provinces):
1) Unknown; 2)
Luanda
.
Material
examined.
Luanda
(
8° 50´S
,
13° 15´E
,
70 m
alt., 89) (
LUANDA
),
27.IV.1974
,
1♀
, DO
,
A
. Serrano leg.,
ASC
;
Luanda
near
Motor
racing circuit (
8° 59´S
,
13° 05´E
,
50 m
alt., 89) (
LUANDA
),
12.VI.2016
,
1♀
, DO,
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
.
Remarks.
A
species widespread thoughout central, southern and eastern Africa (
Angola
,
Botswana
, D. R. of the
Congo
,
Zambia
, R. of
South
Africa
,
Lesotho
,
Swaziland
,
Zimbabwe
,
Malawi
,
Uganda
,
Mozambique
,
Tanzania
,
Kenya
,
Ethiopia
,
Somalia
) and
Madagascar
(
Häckel
et al
. 2016
). Like the precedent species it was already known to
Angola
(
Häckel
et al
. 2016
, Insectoid.info 2017), but without any recorded locality. The first female adult was found in an open bush habitat with sparse grassy vegetation on sandy-clayey yellow-reddish soil in the outskirts of
Luanda
and the second on ground during night near a public light.