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)
Author
Häckel, Martin
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4.
Craspedophorus dicranothorax
(Alluaud, 1915)
(
Plate 7
, Figs 65, 66)
Eudema dicranothorax
Alluaud, 1915b
: 252
(type locality “Gabon” probably in error).
Craspedophorus dicranothorax
Lorenz 2005
: 320
.
Häckel and Farkač 2012
: 80
.
Type material.
Holotype (♂): “Congo [handwritten]/ Type [printed in red on white label]//
Eudema
/
dicranothorax
/ Alluaud / Alluaud déterm. [handwritten in black on white label]” (
Plate 5
, Fig. 65, MNHN)
Additional material examined.
Central Africa.
1♀
: “[=
Sangha-Mbaéré
prefecture],
Ndoki NP
,
Camp
1, chablis 1
,
Lac
1,
02°28'40.5 N
016°13'02.6 E
” (
Plate 5
,
Fig.
66, cMH)
Congo (Brazzaville)
.
1♀
: “
Museum Paris
/
Congo
franç. /
N'Kogo
//
H. Bonet
1903 //
Cr. dicranothorax
/
All.
/
P. Basilewsky
det. 1954” (
MNHN
)
.
DR
Congo
:
Bas-Congo
.
1♂
: “
Mayumbe
:
Temvo
” (
MRAC
)
.
Gabon
.
1♀
: “[
Ogooué-Ivindo Province
]
Bakouaka
” (cDM)
;
1♀
: “[
Ogooué-Lolo Province
]
Lastourville
”
;
1♂
,
1♀
: “
Distr. M'Bigon
[=
Mbigou
,
Ngounié Province
]:
Makogonio
”
;
1♂
: “[
Nyanga Province
]
Tchibanga
” (
MRAC
)
.
Note.
This species is based on a single specimen. When describing this species
Alluaud (1915b: 252)
states that the
type
locality is “
Gabon
”. In
MNHN
I have found the specimen labeled by Alluaud as
holotype
, its locality being “
Congo
” (recently
Congo
Brazzaville and a part of RCA). With regard to the specimens nowadays found in
Congo
(Brazzaville)
and in the
Central
African Republic
I presume that the locality specification in the
holotype
(
Congo
) is correct, whereas Alluaud’s description (
Gabon
) seems to be wrong. Description (in part, see
Alluaud 1915b
: 252). “Length
20.5 mm
. Body black, glossy with antennae and tarsi reddish, each elytron with two yellow maculae: humeral macula in basal third, reaching from VI to VIII interval; preapical macula in apical third, on the same intervals. Head with vertex punctured. Pronotum more grossly punctured than head, with anterior angles, widely rounded and posterior angles forming points, strongly protruded, outreach posteriorly the basal level, separated from the base by a deep concavity. Elytra convex, ovoid, quite short, strongly striated, with intervals convex, very sparsely punctured; intervals III, V and VII somewhat larger than the others. Venter grossly punctured; metepisterna squared, short. This species is very simply distinguishable in its posterior pronotal angles, which differently, unorthodoxly shaped. Because of other characters, as ovoid, quite short body, it belongs in one group with
Eudema grossa
[=
Craspedophorus grossus
(
Hope, 1842
)
] and
E.
[=
C.
]
strachani
Hope, [1842]
, occurring in tropical
West
Africa. The only specimen, I have, seems to be pretty abraded; although some setae on pronotum and elytral margins are visible, short and reddish (as coloured as antennae and tarsi), which indicated as well coloured setae, covering dorsum in fresh specimens. Habitat. a single specimen, labeled
Gabon
, in my collection” [from French].
Distribution.
Central
African Republic
,
Congo
(Brazzaville)
,
DR
Congo
:
Bas-Congo
;
Gabon
.