Calathus complanatus vandeli Colas & Mateus

Serrano, Artur R. M., Aguiar, Carlos A. S., Cardoso, Pedro, Pereira, Fernando, Prado, Catarina, Rego, Carla, Silva, Isamberto & Boieiro, Mário, 2025, Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Desertas Islands (Madeira archipelago, Portugal): description of a new subspecies and faunistic notes, Zootaxa 5683 (3), pp. 397-416 : 410

Calathus complanatus vandeli Colas & Mateus

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Material examined: CH: Ilhéu Chão , 21.X.1991, 1 male, 5.IX.2014, 8 males, 9 females, DS, I. Silva leg., ASC . DG: Eira , 17.IV.2012, 1 male, 1 female, DS, A. Serrano et al. leg., ASC ; Planalto Sul , 11.V.2011, 4 males, 5 females, DS, I. Silva leg., ASC ; Planalto Sul , 27.IV.2011, 4 males, 3 females, 17.IV.2012, 10 males, 3 females, DS, 27.IV-11.V.2011, 9 males, 5 females, PF, A. Serrano et al. leg., ASC . BU: Bugio Sul , 27.IV.2011, 1 female, DS, A. Serrano et al. leg., ASC ; Planalto Sul , 15.IV.2012, 1 female, DS, A. Serrano leg., ASC ; Planalto Sul , 18.XI.2015, 1 male, 2 females, DS, I. Silva leg., ASC .

Remarks: An endemic subspecies of Desertas, occurring in all three islands. The nominal subspecies is found on Madeira Island. It is a common pratincolous ground-dwelling subspecies frequently found beneath stones and syntopic with S. abbreviatus desertarum and N. cimensis cimensis .

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FIGURE 2. Adults of: (a) Scarites abbreviatus desertarum, Deserta Grande; (b) Eurygnathus latreillei latreillei (Laporte, 1834), Ilhéu da Cal, Porto Santo; (c) Orthomus (Nesorthomus) bedelianus isambertoi ssp. nov., Bugio; (d) Zargus desertae, Deserta Grande; (e) Nesarpalus gregarius, Deserta Grande; (f) Calathus complanatus vandeli, Deserta Grande.