Cypholoba gracilis (Dejean, 1831)

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 : 249

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.6006261

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cypholoba gracilis (Dejean, 1831)
status

 

* Cypholoba gracilis (Dejean, 1831) View in CoL

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 2) Benguela.

Material examined. Chamume (12° 41´38´´ S, 13° 08´51.9´´m E, 6 m alt., 251) (BENGUELA), 28.X.2013, 1♀, PF, R. Capela leg., ASC.

Remarks. The species is polymorphic with four recognized subspecies distributed mainly throughout southern and eastern Africa ( Kleinfeld & Puchner 2012, Insectoid.info 2017). The nominal subspecies occurs in several South Africa Provinces, Botswana and Namibia ( Kleinfeld & Puchner 2012). We do not ascribe our singleton female to any known subspecies, but she looks like the nominal form with the gray-whitish haired longitudinal median pronotal sulcus and the elytra totally glabrous. It could be ascribed to Cypholoba edax Péringuey, 1892 also, but our specimen does not present any withish pubescence at the elytral base and the elytrae are more domed. It is a new species record for Angola.

ASC

Northern Arizona University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Cypholoba

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