Craspedophorus cuneatus cuneatus (Alluaud, 1915)

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 : 8

3a. Craspedophorus cuneatus cuneatus (Alluaud, 1915)

( Plate 5 , Figs 37, 38, Plate 13 , Fig. 102).

Eudema cuneata Alluaud, 1915a: 155 (type locality “Fort-Crampel, sur le haut Chari, dans le Congo français [= Kaga Bandoro, Nana Grébizi Prefecture, Central African Republic]”). Craspedophorus cuneatus Basilewsky 1951b: 206 (ex parte). Lorenz 2005: 320, Häckel and Farkač 2012: 80.

Type material. Holotype (♀): “ Fort-Crampel / Congo français [printed on white label]// cuneatus / Type. Alluaud / Alluaud determ. [handwritten]” ( Plate 5 , Fig. 38, MNHN)

Additional material examined. Cameroon: Centre. 3♂, 1♀: “ Region um Mbalmayo, Umg. Obout, 680m / N 03°30' 9 O 011°43'4” ( Plate 5 , Fig. 37, Plate 13 , Fig. 102), cAP, cMH) . Central Africa. 20♂, 18♀: “[Kémo prefecture] Fort-Sibut ” ( MRAC) ; 1♀: “ 45 km n Sibut” (cMH); 1♂, 2♀: “[Ouaka prefecture] Bambari ” ( MRAC).

Note. This species was based on specimens labeled “Fort-Crampel”, see also note in C. chevalieri (Alluaud, 1915) . Description (in part, see Alluaud, 1915a: 155). “Length 16.5–18 mm. Body posteriorly as well narrowing and acuminated near apex as in C. chevalieri Alluaud and distinctly less convex. Because of smaller statue and different shaped body, it does not resemble previously reported species [as C. bouvieri crampeli Alluaud, 1915 ] except C. chevalieri , which is more similar. Pronotum wide, less densely and grossly punctured, with posterior angles weakly elevated, with very indistinct indentation. Elytral striae punctured; intervals weakly convex, densely and quite grossly punctured. Yellow humeral fascia reaching from II to VIII interval, wide and located near base; macular anterior margin more or less equal, its posterior margin serrate, irregular, fascia compounds of spots, which contiquous, alternatively longer and shorter, prolonged posteriorly on intervals IV, VI and VIII, spots on intervals III, V, and VII less prolonged posteriorly, but often little prolonged anteriorly. Between a lot of specimens I have examined, I have seen a small rest of yellow preapical fascia. Venter sparsely punctured; metepisterna short” [from French].

Distribution. Central Cameroon, Central African Republic.

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PLATE 5. Habitus of Craspedophorus strachani group IV (Scale bar: 10 mm). 34. C. chevalieri (Alluaud, 1915) HT (male); 35. C. chevalieri (Alluaud, 1915), male, Central Africa, Kémo prefecture; 36. C. chevalieri (Alluaud, 1915) male, Cameroon (HT of C. chevalieri jokoanus Basilewsky, 1987); 37. C. cuneatus cuneatus (Alluaud, 1915), male, Cameroon: Centre; 38. C. cuneatus cuneatus (Alluaud, 1915), HT (female); 39. C. cuneatus rotundatus n. ssp., HT (male); 40. C. cuneatus rotundatus n. ssp., PT female, Central Africa, Bamingui-Bandoran; 41. C. cuneatus paromius Basilewsky, 1987, HT (male); 42. C. cuneatus paromius Basilewsky, 1987, PT male, DR Congo: Orientale; 43. C. cuneatus paromius Basilewsky, 1987, PT female, DR Congo: Orientale.

PLATE 13 Craspedophorus strachani group II, aedeagus in frontal and right lateral views: 101. C. chevalieri (Alluaud, 1915), Central Africa; 102. C. cuneatus cuneatus (Alluaud, 1915), Central Africa; 103. C. cuneatus paromius Basilewsky, 1987, Orientale, DR Congo; 104. C. cuneatus rotundatus new subspecies, HT; 105. C. glaber Bates, 1886, Cameroon, Southwestern; 106. C. ruficroides ruficroides new species, HT; 107. C. ruficroides thomsoni new subspecies, PT RCA; 108. C. phenax Basilewsky, 1987, PT Fontem, Cameroon, West; 109. C. congoanus Kolbe, 1889, Eala Bokatola-Bikoro, Équateur, DR Congo; 110. C. phenacoides new species, HT; 111. C. lemariei new species, HT.