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
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journal article
31353
10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
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Orthotrichus gilvipes
(Boheman, 1848)
Distribution in
Angola
(Provinces):
1) Unknown, 2)
Kwanza
Sul
.
Material
examined.
Cateculo
(
Calulo
) (
9° 57´19.75´´ S
,
14° 47´31.37´´ E
,
872 m
alt., 128) (
KWANZA
SUL
), 5.
XI.2014,
2
♀, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Mussende
(
Calulo
) (
9° 57´00´´ S
, 14° 47´´ 36´´ E,
905 m
alt., 128) (
KWANZA
SUL
), 28.
XI.2015,
1
♀, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Alto Ventura
(
Faz. Monte Café
) (
Calulo
) (
9° 59´15´´ S
,
14° 50´12´´ E
,
1086 m
alt., 128) (
KWANZA
SUL
), 30.
XI.2015,
4
♂,
5♀
, 2.
XII.2015,
1
♂,
5♀
, 5.
XII.2015,
1
♂,
2♀
, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Calulo
(
Faz. Klein
) (
10° 02´14´´ S
,
14° 54´38´´ E
,
1059 m
alt., 147) (
KWANZA
SUL
), 1.
XII.2015,
1
♂,
1♀
, 3.
XII.2015,
2
♂,
2♀
, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
.
Remarks.
A
species widespread throughout eastern, central and southern Africa (
Ethiopia
,
Mozambique
,
Zimbabwe
,
Burundi
,
Rwanda
, D. R. of the
Congo
,
Angola
,
Botswana
,
South
Africa
R.) (
Putzeys 1880
, Insectoid.info 2017). The species was recorded for
Angola
by
Putzeys (1880)
without information on localities.
Basilewsky (1960a)
studying the
24 types
described by this author did not pay attention to the other 117 species of carabids recorded for
Angola
in that work, referring that most of them were misinterpreted. Unfortunately we can not confirm the identification of the Putzeys study because all the material deposited in MLZA (Museu Bocage) was destroyed during a catastrophic fire in 1978. However, as the species is so well characterized, it seems to us that Putzeys identification was almost surely correct. Adult specimens were found within litter in secondary rainforests together with other tiger and ground beetles (see comments on
A
. distinctus
remarks). It is a new record for the
Kwanza
Sul
Province
.