Somoplatus fulvus Mulsant & Godart, 1867

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 : 366

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5419.3.3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13891030

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scientific name

Somoplatus fulvus Mulsant & Godart, 1867
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* Somoplatus fulvus Mulsant & Godart, 1867 View in CoL

Distribution: ANG, BFO, CAM, CON, DOC, GAM, GBI, GUI, KEN, MAW, NRE, RCI, RSA, SEN.

Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions): 2) QUN.

Historic records: none.

Material examined: Indjassen (P.N. Lagoas da Cufada) (11º 41´35.62´´ N, 15º 00´03.62´´ W, 23 m alt.) ( QUN), 16.VII.2009, 1 male, LT, A. Serrano leg., ASC; Nhala-Incasolé (P.N.L. Cufada) ( QUN), 17.VII.2009, 1 male, LT, A. Serrano leg., ASC.

Remarks. The species is widely distributed throughout western, central, southern, and eastern Africa ( Lorenz 2021). It was described originally from France based on specimens captured in the port of Marseille ( Mulsant & Godart 1867). The adult specimens were captured by LT within semi-humid forests in the beginning of the rainy season and it is a new genus/species record for Guinea-Bissau ( Table 1 View TABLE 1 ).

ANG

Muséum des sciences naturelles d'Angers

CAM

Central Australian Museum

CON

Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society's Gardens

GAM

Grupo Actinomicetales Merida Facultad de Medicina

KEN

Longwood Gardens

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

SubFamily

Lebiinae

Tribe

Cyclosomini

SubTribe

Masoreina

Genus

Somoplatus

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