Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Author
Serrano, Artur R. M.
Author
Capela, Rúben A.
Author
Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-23
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2
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journal article
31353
10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
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Notiobia
(
Diatypus
)
picina
(Chaudoir, 1878)
Distribution in
Angola
(Provinces):
1)
Huambo
,
Cunene
.
Material examined.
Alto Hama (
12° 13´20´´ S
,
15° 32´57´´ E
,
1512 m
alt., 232) (
HUAMBO
), 31.X.‒ 2.
XI.2015, 1
♀, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
;
Cachimbamba (
12° 28´11´´ S
,
15° 40´56´´ E
,
1560 m
alt., 232) (
HUAMBO
), 3.
XI.2015, 1
♀, DO,
A
.
Serrano
&
R. Capela
leg.,
ASC
.
Remarks.
A
common species widespread throughout Africa south of Sahara (
Ferreira 1965
,
Anichtchenko 2016
), but also present in
South
America (
Argentina
,
Brazil
,
Uruguay
) (Insectoid.info 2017) where was introduced probably by means of the nautical slave trade held between Africa (e.g.
Luanda
) and
Brazil
(e.g.
Salvador
) during the XVI‒XVII centuries. Adults were found on ground during night near public lights (first locality) together with some other ground beetles [e.g.
S. guineense
,
C. intermedius
,
C. rikatlensis
,
C. cupreocinctus
,
C..
tenuicollis
,
Progonochaetus planicollis
(
Putzeys, 1880
)
,
Platymetopus pseudocrenulatus
Facchini, 2016
,
Agonidium natalense
(Boheman, 1848)
,
Agonidium alacre
(Boheman, 1848)
,
E. peringuey
,
E. intermedius
] or on soil beneath litter (second locality).