Brachinus (sg. incertae) apicalis Erichson, 1843

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Benguela.

Material examined. Lobito (12 ° 21´S, 13 ° 33´E, 10 m alt., 227/8) (BENGUELA), 3.IV.1998, 1♀, PF, A. Neves leg., ASC.

Remarks. A species found in D. R. of the Congo, Zimbabwe and Angola (Liebke 1934). The singleton female adult was collected by pitfall trapping in open bush habitat with sparse grassy vegetation on sandy-clayey yellowreddish soil in the outskirts of Lobito together with some other ground beetles [ Calosoma (Calosoma) senegalense Dejean, 1831, Parophonus (Hyparpalus) tomentosus (Dejean, 1829), Anthia (s. str.) cinctipennis actaeon Erichson, 1843].