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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16b.
Craspedophorus strachani bamendanus
n. ssp.
(
Plate 2
, Figs 10, 11,
Plate 12
, Fig. 94)
Type
locality.
“Bamenda,
Cameroun
,
Nord-Ouest
[=
Cameroon
, Northwest]”.
Type
material.
Holotype
(
♂
): “
Cameroun
. Province du /
Nord-Ouest
. Bamenda. /
17. IV. 2009
” (
Plate 2
, Fig. 10,
Plate 12
, Fig. 94,
NMPC
).
Paratype
:
1♀
same labeled as
holotype
(
Plate 2
, Fig. 11, cDM).
Description of
holotype
.
Length
22.5 mm
, width
8.8 mm
. Head and pronotum same as in
C. strachani strachani
, elytra weakly more prolonged and flatter, elytral colouration distinctly different with maculae darker, humeral macula more transverse, more regularly bordered (less denticulated), wider—reaching from IV to VIII interval, resembling that in
C. tetrastigma
(
Chaudoir, 1850
)
. Aedeagus seems the same as in other subspecies of
C. strachani
(
Plate 12
, Figs. 91–94).
Distribution.
Northwestern
Cameroon
, known only from the
type
lokality.