Calosoma (Calosoma) planicolle Chaudoir, 1869

Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Zootaxa 4353 (2), pp. 201-256 : 206

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D2902BF9-0213-40F3-91A4-EC4D4FDB3B27
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6005421
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scientific name	Calosoma (Calosoma) planicolle Chaudoir, 1869
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Calosoma (Calosoma) planicolle Chaudoir, 1869 View in CoL

Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Unknown; 2) Luanda.

Material examined. Luanda (8° 50´S, 13° 15´E, 70 m alt., 89) (LUANDA), 27.IV.1974, 1♀, DO GoogleMaps , A. Serrano leg., ASC ; Luanda near Motor racing circuit (8° 59´S, 13° 05´E, 50 m alt., 89) (LUANDA), 12.VI.2016, 1♀, DO, R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. A species widespread thoughout central, southern and eastern Africa ( Angola, Botswana, D. R. of the Congo, Zambia, R. of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia) and Madagascar ( Häckel et al. 2016). Like the precedent species it was already known to Angola ( Häckel et al. 2016, Insectoid.info 2017), but without any recorded locality. The first female adult was found in an open bush habitat with sparse grassy vegetation on sandy-clayey yellow-reddish soil in the outskirts of Luanda and the second on ground during night near a public light.