Siopelus (Pseudosiopelus) pulchelus (Dejean, 1829)

Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Zootaxa 4353 (2), pp. 201-256 : 223

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D2902BF9-0213-40F3-91A4-EC4D4FDB3B27
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6005943
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scientific name	Siopelus (Pseudosiopelus) pulchelus (Dejean, 1829)
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* Siopelus (Pseudosiopelus) pulchelus (Dejean, 1829)

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 2) Cabinda.

Material examined. Chipita (5° 43´41´´ S, 12° 13´07´´E, 7 m alt., 7) ( CABINDA), 11.II.2011, 1♂, DO, R. Capela leg., ASC. GoogleMaps

Remarks. A species known on western, eastern and central Africa, including atlantic and indic islands ( Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Benin, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Comoros, Seychelles and Madagascar) ( Basilewsky 1950a, Insectoid.info 2017). The single adult was collected under a stone. Surprisingly the species was never recorded for Angola.