A contribution to the knowledge of the subfamily Panagaeinae Hope, 1838 from Africa. Part 3. Revision of the Craspedophorus strachani and C. brevicollis groups (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Author
Häckel, Martin
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-10-11
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journal article
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17c.
Craspedophorus tetrastigma morettoi
new subspecies
(
Plate 3
, Figs 20–23,
Plate 12
, Figs 97, 98)
Type
locality
“
Touba
,
Biemasso
/
Dolla
[=
Ivory Coast
]”.
Type
material.
Holotype
.
1♂
: “[w
Africa
w-]
Ivory
Coast
/
Touba. Biemasso
/
Dolla
/
IV-2002
/ lgt.
P. Moretto
” (
Plate 3
,
Fig.
20,
Plate 12
,
Fig.
97,
NMPC
)
.
Paratypes
.
2♂
,
1♀
same labeled as
holotype
(
Plate 3
,
Fig.
21, cMH, cPS);
1♂
: “
Ashanti
” (
NMPC
)
;
2♂
,
1♀
: “[w
Africa
e-]
Ivory Coast
/
Comoé
[NP],
Zamou
/ [13-28.]
XI.2014
/ lgt. loc. coll.>
P. Moretto
” (
Plate 3
,
Fig.
23,
Plate 12
,
Fig.
98, cMH, cPS);
1♂
: “
Koutiala
/
Soudan Francais
[=
Mali
]/
P. Gavard
1933 [printed in blue on white label]//
Coll. Mus
.
Congo
/
Col. P. Basilewsky
[printed in black on white label]// ap. /
tetrastigma
/
Chd
[handwritten in black]/
P. Basilewsky
det. 195[printed in black on white label]” (
Plate 3
,
Fig.
22,
MRAC
)
;
1
♀
: “
Nigeria
[
Kaduna
State]
Kafanchan
/
780m
.
9°4'57
N 8°37'
26E /
27.VII.2006
.
Leg
. Léonard” (cMH).
Description of
holotype
.
Length
21.4 mm
, width
9.1 mm
. Head, pronotum and statue the same as in
C. tetrastigma tetrastigma
, the main difference is in its elytral colouration, in the shape of elytral maculae particularly, humeral macula narrowing medially, laterally widening into the shape of an equilateral triangle, or semicircular (in eastern populations) with its straight margin parallel to elytral margin (humeral macula in
C. t. tetrastigma
does not narrow medially, forming almost a rectangular fascia (
Plate 3
, Figs 18–23). Aedeagus is very similar to that in other subspecies of
C. tetrastigma
or
C. strachani
(
Plate 12
, Figs. 91–93, 96–99).
Distribution.
Ghana
,
Ivory
Coast
,
Mali
,
Nigeria
:
Kaduna
State.