Craspedophorus tetrastigma (Chaudoir, 1850)

Häckel, Martin, 2017, 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), Zootaxa 4330 (1), pp. 1-67 : 30

17d. Craspedophorus tetrastigma ssp.

Craspedophorus strachani ssp... Burgeon 1930b: 158 (type loc. “Kunungu [=Mai-Ndombé (formerly Bandundu) Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo]”). Craspedophorus strachani, 1935b: 180 (ex parte).

Note. This population has never been described as subspecies. Burgeon (1930b: 158) refers two specimens from Kunungu (Mai-Ndombe, DR Congo) from the collection of Dr. Schouteden, 1921. “Two rather damaged specimens of greater body, resembling the previous [subspecies C. t. milzi ( Duvivier, 1891) ]. Bourgeon mentions those taxa once again (1935b: 180) and classes them as C. strachani ( Hope, 1842) and adds a short description: “Two specimens from Kunungu are larger than C. [s.] strachani , pronotum posteriorly narrowing and ventrites not crenulated” [from French]. I have not found those specimens in MRAC and both descriptions by Burgeon are rather brief. I do not dare present the taxon as a separate species, it is referred to as a subspecies. In my opinion, this population seems to be more similar to C. tetrastigma than to C. strachani because of its wider pronotum, more narrowing posteriorly, and also because of distributional area geographically closer to those of other subspecies of C. tetrastigma . Maybe it represents a separate species because of its ventrites with anterior margin without crenulation, similar as in C. latipennis (Burgeon, 1930) .