Cryptophonus litigiosus litigiosus Dejean, 1829

Ghannem, Samir, Pérez-González, Sergio, Pérez Zaballos, Juan M. & Boumaiza, Moncef, 2015, New records of Carabidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Tunisia., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14, pp. 37-41 : 39

Cryptophonus litigiosus litigiosus Dejean, 1829

Material examined. Site 1. 3 specimens, 11 April 2012; Site 4: 2 specimens, 16 January 2013.

Diagnosis. Body length 8-9 mm. Black insect. Pronotum widest usually at middle of pronotal sides with one slightly setigerous pore before the middle, roundly or almost rectilinearly converging in posterior half, basal margin shorter than or equal to elytral base between humeral angles, Basal edge glabrous, the surface is rather coarsely punctuated. Elytra characterized by one short row of setigerous pores at the apex of the eighth interval. Mentum and submentum are separated by transverse suture. Transverse pronotum not narrowed at the base. Subparallel sides, curved back to the posterior corners that are straight but very rounded. Elytra are slightly convex, with angular shoulders and sinuate apical margin.Ventral segments hairless. Some points aligned on the termination of the eighth interstria.

Habitat. The specimens were collected under a stone and under plant debris.

Distribution. Palaearctic region. North Africa: Algeria, Egypt. Europe: Spain, Italy, France, Portugal. Asia: Turkey, Syria, Palestine ( Bedel, 1895; L̂bl & Smetana, 2003; Serrano, 2003), so the newly recorded presence in Tunisia is not surprising and is coherent with the known distribution.