Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Author
Serrano, Artur R. M.
Author
Capela, Rúben A.
Author
Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-23
4353
2
201
256
journal article
31353
10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
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Termophilum massilicatum
Guérin-Méneville, 1845
Distribution in
Angola
(Provinces):
1) Unknown; 2)
BIÉ
.
Material examined.
Satchijamba-Somakwanza (
13° 44´46.50´´ S
,
17° 11´2.26´´ E
,
1611 m
alt., 303) (
BIÉ
),
31.X.2014
,
1♂
,
1♀
,
2.XI.2014
,
1♀
, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Catota (
2,5 km
S) (
14° 00´37´´ S
,
17° 24´00´´ E
,
1532 m
alt., 323) (BI),
2.XI.2014
,
1♂
, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
.
Remarks.
A
species spread throughout southern, central and part of eastern Africa (
Angola
,
Namibia
,
South
Africa
,
Zambia
, Bostwana,
Zimbabwe
,
Mozambique
) (
Ferreira 1965
,
Kleinfeld & Puchner 2012
). The species was recorded for
Angola
without any reference to a known locality (
Ferreira 1965
). Adult specimens were found in nocturnal activity (first locality) and diurnal activity (second locality) within open secondary forests together with other ground beetles (first locality: see
S. tenebricosus fatalis
remarks) and the tiger beetles
P. angusticollis
,
D. fredericoi
,
D. pentheri
,
Dromica serietuberculata
W. Horn, 1929
,
T. pepetela
,
L. uncivittata
and
C. agualusai
(second locality) (see also Serrano
et al
. 2015). It is a new record for the Bi Province.