Nesarpalus gregarius (Fauvel)

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

Nesarpalus gregarius (Fauvel)

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Material examined: BU: Bugio Norte, 27.IV.2011, 13 males, 17 females, DS, 27.IV-19.V.2011, 3 males, 2 females, PF, A. Serrano et al. leg., ASC ; Bugio Sul, 27.IV.2011, 6 males, 9 females, DS, 27.IV-19.V.2011, 1 female, PF, A. Serrano et al. leg., ASC ; Planalto Sul, 27.IV.2011, 2 females, DS, A. Serrano leg., ASC .

Remarks: An endemic species of Madeira Archipelago, occurring in all three Desertas Islands. It was sampled by direct collection and pitfall trapping in the Bugio plateau. It is a ground-dwelling pratincolous species very common in Bugio and often found under stones together with S. abbreviatus desertarum and C. complanatus vandeli .

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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.