Notes on the genus Somoplatus Dejean, 1829 (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with descriptions of five new species Author Schüle, Peter text African Invertebrates 2009 2009-12-31 50 2 461 461 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.050.0213 journal article 10.5733/afin.050.0213 2305-2562 7661654 Somoplatus fulvus Mulsant & Godart, 1867 Figs 4 , 12 , 20 , 26 Somoplatus fulvus : Mulsant & Godart 1867: 411 ; Gangelbauer 1892: 396 ; Burgeon 1936: 307 ; Jeannel 1942: 1016; Basilewsky 1953: 1032 ; 1967: 1749; 1969: 342; 1984: 32; 1986: 245. ( Type possibly lost.) Somoplatus marseuli Chaudoir, 1876: 7 ( type in MNHN). Synonymy established by Gangelbauer (1892) . New country records: 3^‘ IVORY COAST , NE, Comoé National Park , v. 2000 , Philippe Moretto leg., inside termite hill’ ( PSC ) ; 2^‘ MALAWI centr., Luwawa ( 30 km S Mzimba ), 30.-31.xii.2001 , J. Bezdek leg’ ( SMNH , PSC ) ; 1 _ 1^‘ BURKINA FASO : NAHOURI, Forêt de Nazinga , Akwazena , 275m , 11°09'24"N : 1°36'44"E , 26.vii.2006 , zone soudanienne savane boisée, piège lumineux, F. & S. Génier , 2006-76’ ( FGC ) ; 1 _ SOUTH AFRICA : ‘RSA: Northern Province [= Limpopo ], Thabaphaswa Farm , 1400 m N, Potgietersrus , 13.-14.xii.2003 , leg. W. Schawaller’ ( SMNH ) . Distribution: West, Central and South Africa .