A contribution to the knowledge of the subfamily Panagaeinae Hope, 1838 from Africa. Part 2. Revision of the Craspedophorus leprieuri and C. regalis groups (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Author Häckel, Martin text Zootaxa 2017 4236 2 201 243 journal article 36468 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.1 ec0dbb00-2a4a-41c9-9e60-185f972be9bd 1175-5326 321720 BC5E331F-045C-47FF-BA0E-042C69DE3F80 1. Craspedophorus cameronus Bates, 1886 (Plate 2, Figs 13–15) Craspedophorus cameronus Bates, 1886 : 196 ( type loc. “ Mount Cameroons ” [= South West Region , Cameroon ]). Burgeon 1930b : 158 , 1935: 180, Jeannel 1949 : 853 , Basilewsky 1954 : 247 , Lorenz 2005 : 320 , Häckel et Farkač 2012 : 80 . Type material. Holotype (♀): “Cameroons // Craspedophorus / cameronus / Bates [handwritten in black on white label]// Ex-Musaeo / H. W. Bates / 1892 [printed in black on white label]// Type [printed in black on red label]” (Plate 2, Fig. 14, MNHN, Oberthür/Bates Collection). Paratypes: 1♂,1♀: “Cameroons [handwritten, white label]// Craspedophorus / cameronus / Bates [handwritten, white label]// Ex-Musaeo / H. W. Bates / 1892 [printed, white label]// Paratype [printed, red label]” (Plate 2, Fig. 13, MNHN, Oberthür/Bates Collection). Other material examined. Cameroon . [ South West ] 1♀ : “ Grina ” ( MRAC ) . DR Congo: Orientale Province . 1♂ [labeled as comparted with type (in MNHN ) by Basilewsky ],1♀: “Barumbu”; 1♀: “De Stan.[- leyville] à Irumu, km 70”; 1♂: “Haut-Uele: Yebo; 1♂, 1♀ : “ Yangambi ( Lubilu River )” ( MRAC ) ; Sud-Kivu Province . 1♀ : “ Kitutu ” ( MRAC ). Equatorial Guinea . 2♀ : “ Guinéé Espagnole , Mongo ” ( MRAC ) . Gabon . 1♀ : “[ Ogoué-Ivindo Prov. ] Ogoué , Lambaréné ” ; 1♀: “Ogôué” (MNHN); 1♂ : “[ Estuaire Prov.] Ntoum (cDM)” ; 1♂, 1♀ : “[ Ogoué-Ivindo Prov. ] Makokou-Passa ” ( Plate 2, Fig. 15, cMH). Guinea . 1♀ : “ Nimba ” ( MRAC ) . Nigeria : Cross River State . 1♀ : “ Old Calabar [printed in black on white st upper pinned label]// Musum Paris / 1952 / Coll. A . Oberthür [printed in black on lower pinned blue label]/// pinned second from left in the series labeled: “ Lafertéi ? / Murray / Afrique occident. / Sallé [handwritten in black on white box label in Chaudoir's Collection ” ( MNHN ) . Note. This species was based on five specimens collected in Cameroon , labeled “Mount Cameroons ”. Description (in part, see Bates 1886 : 196). “Length 15 mm . It mostly resembles C. leprieuri (Laporte de Castelnau, 1835 ) . Almost parallel-sided, black, palps, antennae (except base), tibiae and tarsi piceo-ferrugineous, each elytron with two yellowish maculae, humeral macula reaching from V.[VI.] to VIII. interval, macular spots on VII. and VIII. intervals elongated to humerus; subapical macula smaller, reaching from V. to VIII. interval; head strongly convex, vertex and frons grossly punctured; pronotum with lateral margins widely explanated, posteriorly narrowed, rounded at midlength, anteriorly narrowing, arcuate, anterior margin deeply sinuate, posterior margins distinctly more sharp and sinuate than in C. leprieuri , denticulated, deeply emarginated in front of posterior angles, surface throughout grossly punctured; elytra striated, punctured, covered by short setae, intervals sparsely punctured” [from Latin]. “Belongs to the same section as C. leprieuri , in which the posterior episterna are longer than broad, the ventral segments not crenulated on their fore margins, and the neck not constricted above. The thorax has the same broad outline - much broader and more dilated anteriorly than in C. grossus and its allies, but it is narrower, especially behind, than in C. leprieuri . The scanty punctuation of the elytral interstices—the punctures not being more than 3 or 4 in a transverse row—and the great length of the red basal spot on the VII. and VIII. interstices, further amply distinguish the species”. Burgeon (1935: 180) stated: “Specimens collected in Barumbu [village with a hospital in the past district of Aruwimi, today west part of Orientale Province in DR Congo ] (XII, 20, Ghesquière) appear to me the same as a specimen from Cameroon [ type series], from which they differ by reddish antennae and tibiae, more transverse pronotum widest behind midlength, more attenuate hind part of body, and more reduced and undivided elytral maculae.” [from French]. Distribution. Cameroon , DR Congo : Orientale , Sud-Kivu Provinces; Equatorial Guinea , Gabon , Guinea , south-eastern Nigeria .