Siopelus (Africobatus) harpaloides (Guérin-Méneville, 1847)

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 : 221

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.6005909
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scientific name	Siopelus (Africobatus) harpaloides (Guérin-Méneville, 1847)
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Siopelus (Africobatus) harpaloides (Guérin-Méneville, 1847) View in CoL

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

Material examined. Cachingues-Chipica (13° 10´15.74´´ S, 16° 45´48.17´´ E, 1649 m alt., 281) ( BIÉ), 2.IV.2014, 1♂, 1♀, LT, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps ; Satchijamba-Somakwanza (13° 43´38.76´´ S, 17° 12´17.74´´ E, 1601 m alt., 303) ( BIÉ), 7.IV.2014, 1♂, 1♀, LT, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps ; Chitembo (18 km SE) (13° 36´17.53´´ S, 16° 54´00.44´´ E, 1538 m alt., 302) ( BIÉ), 30.X.2014, 1♂, LT, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps ; Caála (12° 51´11´´ S, 15° 33´07´´ E, 1758 m alt., 256) (HUAMBO), 3.XI.2015, 1♂, 1♀, 5.XI.2015, 1♀, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. A common species known almost from all Africa south of Sahara ( Senegal, Guinea, Togo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, D.R. of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, Malawi, South Africa) ( Basilewsky 1950a, Ferreira 1965, Insectoid.info 2017). In the first three localities the adults were collected by light trapping within open secondary forests together with some other ground beetles (e.g. S. ludricus , S. guineense , A. natalensis ). Adults in Caála were collected on a wall near public lights with other ground beetles also (see P. elegans remarks). It is a new record for the Huambo and Bié Provinces.