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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Thyreopterus flavosignatus
Dejean, 1831
Distribution in
Angola
(Provinces):
1)
Lunda
Norte
; 2)
Bié
.
Material examined.
Satchijamba (
10 km
E) (13°
43° 38.76´´ S
, 17°
12° 17.74´´ E
,
1601 m
alt., 283) (
BIÉ
),
7.IV.2014
,
1♂
,
1♀
, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
.
Remarks.
A
species widespread throughout western, central, southern and eastern Africa (
Senegal
,
Gambia
,
Guinea-Bissau
,
Cameroon
,
Central
African Republic
, D. R. of the
Congo
,
Angola
,
Namibia
,
South
Africa
R.,
Kenya
) (
Basilewsky 1955
,
Ferreira 1965
,
Serrano 2009
, Insectoid.info 2017). Adult specimens were collected under the bark of decomposing trunks together with Zygentoma,
Formicidae
and
Tenebrionidae
adults and the ant nest beetle
P. pseudoklugi
within an open secondary forest. It is a new record for the
Bié Province
.