Siopelus (Pseudosiopelus) pallidior (Burgeon, 1936)

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.6005941
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scientific name	Siopelus (Pseudosiopelus) pallidior (Burgeon, 1936)
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Siopelus (Pseudosiopelus) pallidior (Burgeon, 1936) View in CoL

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Huíla, Cuando Cubango; 2) Huambo.

Material examined. Caála (12° 51´11´´ S, 15° 33´07´´ E, 1758 m alt., 256) (HUAMBO), 3.XI.2015, 1♂, 5.XI.2015, 1♀, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. A species known on western, eastern and central Africa ( Guinea, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, D. R. of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique) ( Basilewsky 1950a, Ferreira 1965, Insectoid.info 2017). Adults were collected on walls during night near public lights together with several other ground beetles (e.g. see N. picina and P. incrassatus remarks). It is a new record for the Huambo Province.