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
4353
2
201
256
journal article
31353
10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
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Parophonus
(
Heterohyparpalus
)
integer
(
Péringuey, 1896
)
Distribution in
Angola
(Provinces):
1)
Huíla
, Cuando Cubango,
Moxico
; 2)
Huambo
,
Bié
,
Malanje
.
Material
examined.
Mumbué
(
Cuanza
riverhead) (
13° 49´41´´ S
,
17° 19´26´´ E
,
1511 m
alt., 303) (
BIÉ
), 9.
IV.2014,
1
♂, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Caála
(
12° 51´11´´ S
,
15° 33´07´´ E
,
1758 m
alt., 256) (
HUAMBO
), 5.
XI.2015,
1
♀, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Kakande
(
12° 42´50´´ S
,
16° 45´33´´ E
,
1716 m
alt., 258) (
BIÉ
), 7.
XI.2015,
1
♂, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Mutubanzamba
(
Cangandala
) (
09° 47´45´´ S
,
16° 31´40´´ E
,
1136 m
alt., 132) (
MALANJE
), 21.
XI.2015,
1
♂, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
.
Remarks.
Another species widespread throughout almost all Africa south of Sahara (
Senegal
,
Guinea-Bissau
,
Mali
,
Ivory
Coast
,
Chad
, D. R. of the
Congo
,
Angola
,
Zimbabwe
,
Rwanda
,
Eritrea
,
Sudan
,
Kenya
,
Tanzania
,
Mozambique
,
South
Africa
) (
Serrano 1999c
,
Anichtchenko 2016
, Insectoid.info 2017). Adults were found in countryside roads within savanah (Mumbué) or open secondary forest (Kakande and Mutubanzamba) with withish sandy soil beneath the marginal litter, and on a wall near public lights (Caála) with other ground beetles (see
P. holosericus
remarks). It is a new record for the
Huambo
,
Bié
and
Malanje
Provinces.