Desera viridipennis Hope 1842: 91 Drypta bocandei LaFerté-Senectère 1849: 348 ( Senegal ) Liebke 1928: 98 Dendrocellus bocandei LaFerté-Senectère, Chaudoir 1850: 35 Desera pectoralis Murray 1857: 157 ( Angola ) Basilewsky 1960: 179 D. viridipennis Hope D. viridipennis Hope Desera sp. 3 D. viridipennis Hope D. viridipennis Hope D. viridipennis Hope D. viridipennis Hope D. viridipennis Hope Desera viridipennis Desera viridipennis Desera viridipennis Desera viridipennis Desera bocandei Laf. P. Basilewsky D. viridipennis Hope D. viridipennis Hope Bocandei Laf. Desera Bocandei Laf. L. Burgeon 1935 Bocandei Laf. Drypta cyanea Cast. Dryta cyanea Cast. Desera Bocandei Laf. Desera Bocandei Laf. L. Review of the Genus Dendrocellus Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini), with Descriptions of Seven New Species Liang, Hongbin Kavanaugh, David H. The Coleopterists Bulletin 2007 Oxford, England 2007-03-31 61 1 1 39 (Hope) Liang & Kavanaugh 2007 Hope [304,637,669,691] Insecta Carabidae Dendrocellus GBIF Animalia Coleoptera 36 Arthropoda species viridipennis comb. nov.  ( Figs. 24, 51, 54, 103–104)      Desera viridipennis Hope 1842: 91( Sierra Leone)    Drypta bocandeiLaFerté-Senectère 1849: 348 ( Senegal),  Liebke 1928: 98   Dendrocellus bocandeiLaFerté-Senectère, Chaudoir 1850: 35    Desera pectoralisMurray 1857: 157 ( Angola),  Basilewsky 1960: 179  Specimens examined.Total 32 specimens:  Cameroon: 1 male(CMNH), ‘‘Efullen, Kameron, H. L. Weber, M. C. Acc. 4,265’’/‘‘ April 2, 1909’’/‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’; 1 female(CMNH), ‘‘Efullen, Kameron, H. L. Weber, M. C. Acc. 4,265’’/‘‘ April 18, 1910’’/‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’; 1 male(CAS), ‘‘Joko, Kameron’’/‘‘From O. Bryant Coll.’’/‘‘  Deserasp. 3, det. D. H. Kavanaugh, 1991’’; 1 maleand 4 females(CMNH), ‘‘Lolodorf, Kamerun, J. A. Reis, Acc. 5,628’’/‘‘ May 12 1914’’/‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’; 1 male(CMNH), ‘‘Lolodorf, Kamerun’’/‘‘ Sept. 1913’’/‘‘Good Coll., acc. 5,263’’/‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’; 3 males(CMNH), ‘‘Lolodorf, Kamerun’’/‘‘ June 2, 1914’’/‘‘Good Coll., acc. 5,263’’/‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’; 1 male(CMNH), ‘‘Lolodorf, Kamerun’’/‘‘ June 6, 1914’’/‘‘Good Coll., acc. 5,263’’/‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’; 1 female(CMNH), ‘‘Lolodorf, Kamerun’’/‘‘ June 1914’’/‘‘Good Coll., acc. 5,263’’/ ‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’.  Congo: 2 females(ISNB), ‘‘ CongoBelge, P. N. G. Miss. H. de Saeger II/fd/17, 9-VI-1951, rec. H. de Saeger 1888’’/ ‘‘P. Basilewsky det. 1959,  Desera viridipennisHope’’; 1 female(ISNB), ‘‘Belg. Kongostaat, Coll. Plason’’/‘‘Coll. R. I. Sc. N. B. Congobelge’’; 1 male(ISNB), ‘‘ CongoBelge, P. N. G. Miss. H. de Saeger II/hd/8, 30-V-1951, Réc. H. de Saeger 1826’’/‘‘P. Basilewsky det. 1959,  Desera viridipennisHope’’; 1 female(ISNB), ‘‘ CongoBelge, P. N. G. Miss. H. de Saeger II/gd/14, 6-VI-1951, Réc. H. de Saeger 1876’’; 1 male(ISNB), ‘‘ CongoBelge, P. N. G. Miss. H. de Saeger, r. Buluka (Soudan), 21-V-1952, J. Verschuren, 3,540’’/‘‘P. Basilewsky det. 1959,  Desera viridipennisHope’’; 2 females(ISNB), ‘‘ CongoBelge, P. N. G. Miss. H. de Saeger, II/hc/8, 5-VI-1951, Rec. H. de Saeger, 1869’’/‘‘P. Basilewsky det. 1959,  Desera viridipennisHope’’; 1 female(ISNB), ‘‘Congo- belge: Kwango, Ngowa-XI-1937, R. P. J. Mertens’’, R. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belg. I. G. 11.648’’/‘‘  Desera bocandeiLaf. P. Basilewskydet. 1948’’.  Gabon: 1 male(ISNB), ‘‘Gabon’’/‘‘Soc. Ent. Belg. Coll. Putzeys’’/‘‘Coll. R. I. Sc. N. B. Gabon’’; 1 female(ISNB), ‘‘Gabon’’/‘‘Coll. Ogier de Baulny’’/‘‘6,179’’/‘‘Coll. R. I. Sc. B. B. Gabon’’; 1 male(CMNH), ‘‘Kangve, Ogove R., A. C. Good’’/Holland Collection’’/‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’; 1 female(CMNH), ‘‘Ogove R., A. C. Good’’/Holland Collection’’/ ‘‘  D. viridipennisHope, det. R. Davidson’’.  Gambia: 1 female(ISNB), ‘‘Gambie’’/ ‘‘Gambie’’/‘‘coll. Bates’’/‘‘  BocandeiLaf.’’/‘‘  Desera BocandeiLaf. L. Burgeon 1935’’/‘‘Coll R. I. Sc. N. B. Gambie’’; 1 female(ISNB), ‘‘Gambie’’/‘‘Gambie’’/ ‘‘Coll. R. I. Sc. N. B. Gambie’’.  Senegal: 1 male(ISNB), ‘‘Gallon’’/‘‘Gallon’’/ ‘‘Collect Bates’’/‘‘Collection E. Rousseau’’/‘‘  BocandeiLaf.Sénégal’’; 1 male(ISNB), ‘‘Sénégal’’/‘‘  Drypta cyaneaCast.’’/‘‘Collection P. Dupuis’’/‘‘  Dryta cyaneaCast.det. P. Dupuis, 1913’’/‘‘  Desera BocandeiLaf.’’/‘‘  Desera BocandeiLaf. L.Burgeon’’/‘‘Coll. R. I. Sc. N. B. Sénégal’’.  Tanzania: 1 male(ISNB), ‘‘Tanganika D. O. A.’’/‘‘Collection P. Dupuis’’/‘‘Coll. R. I. Sc. N. B. Congo belge’’.   Description.Length 11.6–12.8 mm, width 3.4–3.8 mm. Black with green and blue luster; apical third of Ant 1 black, basal two-thirds red or brown; femora brown with apical fifth or sixth black; tibiae brown; scutellum, and meso- and metasternum brown, prosternum and metepisterna also brown in some specimens. Head wider than pronotum, HW/PW 51.19 (1.15–1.23); Ant 1/Ant3 53.94 (3.69– 4.08); medial lobe of labrum slightly protruded anteriorly; genae very long, slightly tumid; eyes large, about 2.3 times as long as genae. Pronotum narrow, widest slightly before the middle; PL/PW 51.52 (1.47–1.55); lateral margins slightly widened from apical angles to widest point, gently narrowed behind, then slightly sinuate to basal angles; basal angles obtuse, pointed laterally; lateral furrow indistinct; basal foveae shallow; middle line fine. Elytra with lateral margins slightly widened to apical fourth, then narrowed to apex; outer angles acute, very slightly dentate; EL/EW 51.85 (1.70–1.94), EW/PW 52.33 (2.24–2.36); intervals flat, densely punctate. Protarsomere 3 strongly asymmetrical in male ( Fig. 51); tarsal claws with 5–6 long pectinations, length of the longest pectination subequal to width of claw base (similar to Fig. 65). Aedeagus stout, with apical lamella narrow, digitiform, thickened at apex ( Figs. 103–104).   Distribution. Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania.   Remarks.We have not examined the typesand have simply followed Basilewsky’s (1960)interpretation of the names and synonymies. All members of this species have brown meso- and metasterna and some also have the prosternum brown. In these and other features, they are very similar to another African species,  D. australis; but they differ from the latter in having blue pronota, longer ratio of Ant 1/Ant 3, and brown tibiae.