Platymetopus pseudocrenulatus Facchini, 2016

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 : 219

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.6005860
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scientific name	Platymetopus pseudocrenulatus Facchini, 2016
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Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Huambo, Huíla, Bié.

Material examined. Chitembo (18 km SE) (13° 36´17.53´´ S, 16° 54´00.44´´ E, 1538 m alt., 302) ( BIÉ), 1. IV.2014, 1 ♂, LT, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps ; Chitembo (6 km SE) (13° 33´23´´ S, 16° 47´22´´ E, 1586 m alt., 302) ( BIÉ), 9. XI.2015, 1 ♂, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps ; Alto Hama (12° 13´20´´ S, 15° 32´57´´ E, 1512 m alt., 232) (HUAMBO), 31.X.‒2. XII.2015, 1 ♀, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps ; Mutubanzamba ( Cangandala ) (9° 47´45´´ S, 16° 31´40´´ E, 1136 m alt., 132) (MALANJE), 21. XI.2015, 1 ♂, 1♀, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. A species described recently by Facchini (2016b) with a wide distribution throughout central and southern Africa ( Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa). Adults were collected by means of light trapping within an open secondary forest (Chitembo), on walls near public lights (Alto Hama) and beneath litter (Mutubanzamba) together with other ground beetles (Chitembo: S. guineense ; Alto Hama: C. intermedius , C. rikatlensis , C. cupreocinctus , C. tenuicollis , P. planicollis ) and tiger beetles [Mutubanzamba: T. nubifera , E. villosus , L. saraliensis , L. uncivittata , L. wellmani ].