Abacetus (Caricus) pseudangulanus Straneo, 1952

Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Zootaxa 4353 (2), pp. 201-256 : 210-211

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6005567
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scientific name	Abacetus (Caricus) pseudangulanus Straneo, 1952
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Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Cunene; 2) Bié.

Material examined. Mumbué (Cuanza riverhead) (13° 49´41´´ S, 17° 19´26´´ E, 1511 m alt., 303) (BIÉ), 8‒ 17.XI.2015, 1♂, PF, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps ; Catota (2,5 km S) (14° 00´37´´ S, 17° 24´00´´ E, 1532 m alt., 323) (BIÉ), 8‒17.XI.2015, 2♀, PF, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. An endemic ground beetle species of Angola from which is known so far the male and female types ( Straneo 1952). Both adults were sampled through pitfall trapping. The Mumbué specimen was collected in sandy whitish soil within a mixed open herbaceous/bush habitat close to the riverhead together with adults of the tiger beetle E. muata f. parallelestriata and the ground beetles S. lucidus strigiceps , E. intermedius , Systolocranius tibialis and Anthia convexipennis Putzeys, 1880 . The Catota specimens were collected through pitfall trapping in sandy clayish reddish soil within a secondary open forest together with adults of some ground beetles (see S. lucidus remarks). It is a new record for the Bié Province.