Craspedophorus strachani bamendanus, Häckel, 2017

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 : 25

16b. Craspedophorus strachani bamendanus n. ssp.

( Plate 2 , Figs 10, 11, Plate 12 , Fig. 94)

Type locality. “Bamenda, Cameroun, Nord-Ouest [= Cameroon, Northwest]”.

Type material. Holotype (♂): “ Cameroun. Province du / Nord-Ouest. Bamenda. / 17. IV. 2009 ” ( Plate 2 , Fig. 10, Plate 12 , Fig. 94, NMPC). Paratype: 1♀ same labeled as holotype ( Plate 2 , Fig. 11, cDM).

Description of holotype. Length 22.5 mm, width 8.8 mm. Head and pronotum same as in C. strachani strachani , elytra weakly more prolonged and flatter, elytral colouration distinctly different with maculae darker, humeral macula more transverse, more regularly bordered (less denticulated), wider—reaching from IV to VIII interval, resembling that in C. tetrastigma ( Chaudoir, 1850) . Aedeagus seems the same as in other subspecies of C. strachani ( Plate 12 , Figs. 91–94).

Distribution. Northwestern Cameroon, known only from the type lokality.

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PLATE 2. Habitus of C. strachani group II (Scale bar: 10 mm). 10. C. strachani bamendanus n. sp., HT (male); 11. C. strachani bamendanus n. sp., PT female; 12. C. latemaculatus Alluaud, 1930, male, Cameroon, Central; 13. C. latemaculatus Alluaud, 1930, HT (female); 14 a. C. latipennis Burgeon, 1930, PT male, Cameroon, Southwest; 14 b. C. latipennis Burgeon, 1930, male, Cameroon, Southwest; 15. C. latipennis Burgeon, 1930, female, Cameroon, Southwest; 16. C. klugii (Hope, 1842), HT (? male); 17 a. C. klugii (Hope, 1842), female, Ivory Coast (det. Basilewsky, MRAC); 17 b. C. klugii (Hope, 1842), female, Ivory Coast (labeled as C. grossus det. Bates, MNHN).

PLATE 12 Craspedophorus strachani group I, aedeagus in frontal and right lateral views: 91. C. strachani strachani (Hope, 1842), Sierra Leone; 92. C. strachani grossus (Hope, 1842), Togo; 93; C. strachani monardi (Basilewsky, 1951), Cameroon, North; 94. C. strachani bamendanus new subspecies, Cameroon, Northwest; 95. C. latipennis Burgeon, 1930; Cameroon, Southwest; 96. C. tetrastigma tetrastigma (Laferté-Sénectere, 1851), Guinea; 97. C. tetrastigma morettoi new subspecies, western Ivory Coast; 98. C. tetrastigma morettoi new subspecies, eastern Ivory Coast; 99. C. tetrastigma milzi Duvivier, 1891, Orientale, DR Congo; 100. C. latemaculatus Alluaud, 1930, Cameroon, Central.