Ground beetles of the subfamily Lebiinae (Carabidae) of Guinea-Bissau: description of three new species and faunistic notes
Author
Serrano, Artur R. M.
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-03-07
5419
3
361
393
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5419.3.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5419.3.3
1175-5326
10791748
E4FECDD5-DF1B-439D-B91C-CB29DADB61F5
Tetragonoderus
(
Tetragonoderus
)
viridicollis
Dejean, 1829
Distribution
: ETI, GAM, GBI, GUI, RCH, RCI, SEN.
Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions):
1) BAF, CAC, GAB, OIO, TOB.
Historic records:
“Guinée portugaise” (without precise locality) (LaFerté-Sénectère 1853);
“Originaire des mêmes countrées que le
quadrum
” (without precise locality) (Chaudoir 1876);
Bafatá (BAF) (Brivio 1957);
Bissorã (OIO), Bissorã-Olossato (OIO), Varela (CAC), Gabú (GAB), Sonaco (GAB), Coli (Quebo) (TOB) (Serrano 2009a).
Material examined:
Banhinda (P.N.T. Cacheu) (12º 12´16.67´´ N, 16º 02´56.45´´ W, 25 m alt.) (CAC), 26.VI.2009, 1 female, LT, A. Serrano leg., ASC.
Remarks.
The species is distributed throughout West Africa, but is known from ETI in northeastern Africa also (Lorenz 2021). It is a very common species in the northern half of Guinea-Bissau (Serrano 2009a) and the adult specimen was captured by LT within a secondary open forest (Table 1). The species is active until the beginning of the dry season (Serrano 2009a).