Craspedophorus tetrastigma morettoi, Häckel, 2017

Häckel, Martin, 2017, A contribution to the knowledge of the subfamily Panagaeinae Hope, 1838 from Africa. Part 3. Revision of the Craspedophorus strachani and C. brevicollis groups (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Zootaxa 4330 (1), pp. 1-67 : 30

17c. Craspedophorus tetrastigma morettoi new subspecies

( Plate 3 , Figs 20–23, Plate 12 , Figs 97, 98)

Type locality “ Touba, Biemasso / Dolla [= Ivory Coast]”.

Type material. Holotype. 1♂: “[w Africa w-] Ivory Coast / Touba. Biemasso / Dolla / IV-2002 / lgt. P. Moretto ” ( Plate 3 , Fig. 20, Plate 12 , Fig. 97, NMPC) . Paratypes. 2♂, 1♀ same labeled as holotype ( Plate 3 , Fig. 21, cMH, cPS); 1♂: “ Ashanti ” ( NMPC) ; 2♂, 1♀: “[w Africa e-] Ivory Coast / Comoé [NP], Zamou / [13-28.] XI.2014 / lgt. loc. coll.> P. Moretto ” ( Plate 3 , Fig. 23, Plate 12 , Fig. 98, cMH, cPS); 1♂: “ Koutiala / Soudan Francais [= Mali]/ P. Gavard 1933 [printed in blue on white label]// Coll. Mus . Congo / Col. P. Basilewsky [printed in black on white label]// ap. / tetrastigma / Chd [handwritten in black]/ P. Basilewsky det. 195[printed in black on white label]” ( Plate 3 , Fig. 22, MRAC) ; 1 ♀: “ Nigeria [Kaduna State] Kafanchan / 780m. 9°4'57 N 8°37' 26E / 27.VII.2006 . Leg. Léonard” (cMH).

Description of holotype. Length 21.4 mm, width 9.1 mm. Head, pronotum and statue the same as in C. tetrastigma tetrastigma , the main difference is in its elytral colouration, in the shape of elytral maculae particularly, humeral macula narrowing medially, laterally widening into the shape of an equilateral triangle, or semicircular (in eastern populations) with its straight margin parallel to elytral margin (humeral macula in C. t. tetrastigma does not narrow medially, forming almost a rectangular fascia ( Plate 3 , Figs 18–23). Aedeagus is very similar to that in other subspecies of C. tetrastigma or C. strachani ( Plate 12 , Figs. 91–93, 96–99).

Distribution. Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria: Kaduna State.

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PLATE 3. Habitus of C. strachani group III (Scale bar: 10 mm). 18. C. tetrastigma tetrastigma (Laferté-Sénectere, 1851), lectotype male designated by Chaudoir, 1879; 19. C. tetrastigma tetrastigma (Laferté-Sénectere, 1851), paralectotype designated by Chaudoir, 1879, female; 20. C. tetrastigma morettoi n. ssp., HT (male); 21. C. tetrastigma morettoi n. ssp., PT female, western Ivory Coast; 22. C. tetrastigma morettoi n. ssp., PT male, Mali; 23. C. tetrastigma morettoi n. ssp., PT female, eastern Ivory Coast; 24. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) male, Central Africa; 25. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) female, DR Congo: Orientale (HT of C. strachani depressus Alluaud, 1929); 26. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) male, DR Congo: Orientale (PT of C. strachani depressus Alluaud, 1929); 25. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) female, DR Congo: Orientale.

PLATE 12 Craspedophorus strachani group I, aedeagus in frontal and right lateral views: 91. C. strachani strachani (Hope, 1842), Sierra Leone; 92. C. strachani grossus (Hope, 1842), Togo; 93; C. strachani monardi (Basilewsky, 1951), Cameroon, North; 94. C. strachani bamendanus new subspecies, Cameroon, Northwest; 95. C. latipennis Burgeon, 1930; Cameroon, Southwest; 96. C. tetrastigma tetrastigma (Laferté-Sénectere, 1851), Guinea; 97. C. tetrastigma morettoi new subspecies, western Ivory Coast; 98. C. tetrastigma morettoi new subspecies, eastern Ivory Coast; 99. C. tetrastigma milzi Duvivier, 1891, Orientale, DR Congo; 100. C. latemaculatus Alluaud, 1930, Cameroon, Central.