The tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cicindelinae) of Angola: a descriptive catalogue and designation of neotypes
Author
Serrano, Artur R. M.
Author
Capela, Rúben A.
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Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
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Trichotaenia
Rivalier, 1958
(
Rev. Fr. Entom
. 14: 340)
Cassola (1983) revised this genus and Schüle (2011a) provided an identification key for all species of this Afrotropical genus. It is represented in
Angola
by two species. Although previous authors (Boheman 1860; Cassola & Bouyer 2011) included
Angola
in the distribution of
Trichotaenia tereticollis
,
we did not find any specific record for this country in the literature.
Trichotaenia pseudosuturalis
(W. Horn, 1914)
(
Arch. Naturgesch
.
79
A11: 21)
Distribution in
Angola
Old records:
—
Type
locality: Bihe (
Angola
), 1♀, SDEI.
—Bié (=Cuito) (BIÉ) (234) (Wellman & Horn 1908 sub
Cicindela suturalis
).
—
Angola
(without locality) (Ferreira 1965 sub
Cicindela pseudosuturalis
).
Remarks.
A species restricted to
Angola
and D. R. of the
Congo
(Werner 2000b). Cassola (1983) redescribed
the species based on a female
syntypus
(SDEI) from Katanga. Welman & Horn (1908) wrote that the species was
“taken in short grass, after most
Cicindelidae
had disappeared”.
Trichotaenia suturata
(W. Horn, 1915)
(Wytsman
Gen. Ins. Cic
.: 277) (=
suturalis
Putzeys, 1880
)
Distribution in
Angola
Old records:
—
Type
locality: Huilla (without locality) (
Angola
),
1 ♂
, MLZA.
—Huilla (without locality) (Putzeys 1880 sub
Dromica suturalis
).
—Capelongo (HUILA) (= Kapelongo) (339) to Dongo (HUILA) (= N’Dongo), not Benguela (Fleutiaux, 1922 sub
Ophryodera ignipennis
).
—Sangevé (HUILA) (= Sangeve; =Sangueve) (300) (Horn 1935; Monard
et al
. 1956 sub
Cicindela suturata
). —Bimbi (=Bimbe) (HUAMBO) (210) (Ferreira 1965 sub
Cicindela suturata
).
New localities reported:
75 km
N Caconda (near Cuima) and
75 km
NE Caconda (HUAMBO) (280);
10 km
S Caluquembe,
20 km
NE Cacula (HUILA) (317) (P. Schüle pers. comm.).
Remarks.
An endemic tiger beetle species of
Angola
found throughout the provinces of Huambo and Huila. The
holotype
deposited in the MLZA of Lisboa was destroyed by the catastrophic fire in 1978. Unlike the preceding species, there are no specimens in MZUC to allow the designation of a
neotype
here. As
C
.
suturalis
was a junior homonym of a Neotropical tiger beetle, W. Horn created
suturata
based on the same
holotype
. Peter Schüle (pers. comm.) found it in open secondary forests.