Tetragonoderus (Tetragonoderus) viridicollis Dejean, 1829

Serrano, Artur R. M., 2024, Ground beetles of the subfamily Lebiinae (Carabidae) of Guinea-Bissau: description of three new species and faunistic notes, Zootaxa 5419 (3), pp. 361-393 : 363

Tetragonoderus (Tetragonoderus) viridicollis Dejean, 1829

Distribution: ETI, GAM, GBI, GUI, RCH, RCI, SEN.

Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions): 1) BAF, CAC, GAB, OIO, TOB.

Historic records:

“ Guinée portugaise ” (without precise locality) ( LaFerté-Sénectère 1853);

“Originaire des mêmes countrées que le quadrum ” (without precise locality) ( Chaudoir 1876);

Bafatá ( BAF) ( Brivio 1957);

Bissorã (OIO), Bissorã-Olossato (OIO), Varela ( CAC), Gabú ( GAB), Sonaco ( GAB), Coli (Quebo) ( TOB) ( Serrano 2009a).

Material examined: Banhinda (P.N. T. Cacheu) (12º 12´16.67´´ N, 16º 02´56.45´´ W, 25 m alt.) ( CAC), 26. VI.2009, 1 female, LT, A. Serrano leg., ASC.

Remarks. The species is distributed throughout West Africa, but is known from ETI in northeastern Africa also ( Lorenz 2021). It is a very common species in the northern half of Guinea-Bissau ( Serrano 2009a) and the adult specimen was captured by LT within a secondary open forest ( Table 1 ). The species is active until the beginning of the dry season ( Serrano 2009a).