Peliocypas debilis ( LaFerté-Sénectère, 1849 )

Serrano, Artur R. M., 2024, Ground beetles of the subfamily Lebiinae (Carabidae) of Guinea-Bissau: description of three new species and faunistic notes, Zootaxa 5419 (3), pp. 361-393 : 370

Peliocypas debilis ( LaFerté-Sénectère, 1849)

Distribution: ANG, CON, DOC, ETI, GBI, GUI, KEN, RCI, RSA, SEN, TAN.

Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions): 1) TOB; 2) CAC.

Historic records:

“ Guinée portugaise ” (without precise locality) ( LaFerté-Sénectère 1849 sub Calleida debilis );

Coli (Quebo) ( TOB) ( Serrano 2009a).

Material examined: Banhinda (P.N. T. Cacheu) (12º 12´16.67´´ N, 16º 02´56.45´´ W, 25 m alt.) ( CAC), 26. VI.2009, 1 male, LT, A. Serrano leg., ASC.

Remarks. The species has a widespread and scattered distribution throughout western, central and southeastern Africa ( Serrano 2009a; Lorenz 2021). The adult specimen was sampled by LT within open secondary forest at the beginning of the wet season ( Table 1 ). It is a new species record for the CAC Administrative Region, Guinea-Bissau.