Craspedophorus tetrastigma milzi Duvivier, 1891, 2017

Häckel, Martin, 2017, A contribution to the knowledge of the subfamily Panagaeinae Hope, 1838 from Africa. Part 3. Revision of the Craspedophorus strachani and C. brevicollis groups (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Zootaxa 4330 (1), pp. 1-67 : 29

17b. Craspedophorus tetrastigma milzi Duvivier, 1891 new status

( Plate 3 , Figs 24–27; Plate 4 , Fig. 30, Plate 12 , Fig. 99)

Craspdophorus milzi Duvivier, 1891 : ccclxxvi (type locality “Djabir-Bandja [=Bondo (Bakongo), Orientale (Bas-Uele) Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo]”). Basilewsky 1987: 195, Lorenz 2005: 321. Häckel and Farkač 2012: 82 [with erroneous locality].

Craspedophorus strachani milzi Basilewsky 1951b: 206 .

Eudema (ou Craspedophorus ) strachani var. nov . depressus Alluaud, 1929: 89 (type locality “Bas-Uelé [=Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo]”). Craspedophorus strachani depressus (? milzi ) Burgeon 1930b: 158. Craspedophorus strachani milzi (depressus) Burgeon 1935b: 180. Craspedophorus strachani depressus Lorenz 2005: 321 . Häckel and Farkač 2012: 83. syn. nov.

Type material. 1♀ labeled as holotype Craspedophorus strachani depressus Alluaud, 1929 : “ Strachani / v. depressus / Type Alluaud [handwritten in black]/ Alluaud, det. 192 [printed in red on white red circumscribed label]// R. dét. [printed in black]/ W [handwritten in black]/ 1454 [printed in black on white label]// depressus / Alld. / (= Milz i / Duv.) [handwritten in black on white label]// Craspedophorus / strachani-depressus [handwritten in black] dét. Ch. Alluaud 1927 [printed in black on white label]// [DataMatrix] RMCA Ent / 0 0 0 0 20052 [printed on white label]” ( Plate 3 , Fig. 25, MRAC). 1♂ labeled as paratype C. s. depressus Alluaud, 1929 : “région du Bas- Uelé / 7–18 nov. 1925 / Prince Léopold [printed in black on white label]// Don du / Musée royal / de Belgique [handwritten in black on white label]// ex Typis [printed in red on white label]// depressus [handwritten in black on white label]// Muséum Paris / Coll. Ch. Alluaud [printed in black on blue label]// Craspedophorus / strachanidepressus [handwritten in black] dét. Ch. Alluaud 1927 [printed in black on white label] ( Plate 3 , Fig. 26, Plate 4 , Fig. 30, MNHN), 1♂ same labeled except: “Paratype [printed in black on red label] (MRAC).

Additional material examined. Central African Republic. 1 Ƌ: “Yalinga /( Oubangui ) [Haute Kotto Prefecture]” / G.Le Testu // cf. Milzi Duv. / t. Burgeon // Muséum Paris / Coll. Ch. Alluaud ” ( Plate 3 , Fig. 24, MNHN) . DR Congo: Équateur. 1♂: “Région Lisala”; 1♀: “Ubangi: Molegbwe”; 1♀: “ M'Paka (terr. Libenge)” ( MRAC) . Orientale. 1♂: “Ibembo, Congo Belge ” ( NMPC); 2♂, 2♀: “Bas-Uelé: Buta” ( Plate 3 , Fig. 27, Plate 12 , Fig. 99, MRAC, cMH)”; 1♂: “Uele: Lakulu”; 2♀: “Uele: Monga” ( MRAC).

Note. This species is based on specimens labeled “Djabir-Bandja”. Bondo (Djabir) is a place on Uele River with a very small population in the region of Orientale, DR Congo. I have not seen the type deposited in Brussels, my opinions are based on the profound examination by Burgeon (1930b: 158) and Basilewsky (1951b: 206). Description (in part, see Duvivier 1891: ccclxxvi). “Length 19 mm, width 8 mm. Black, glossy, almost parallelsided; pronotum quite similar to that in C. tetrastigma ( Chaudoir, 1850) , but rugate, punctured, lateral margins posteriorly more elevated (wider at midlength), more narrowing anteriorly; elytra almost parallel-sided, moderately flattened, black, glossy, punctured, striated, intervals rugate, punctured, each with two red maculae; humeral macula near base, with margin, obliqued anteriorly, reaching from III to VII interval, limited to anterior third, preapical macula near apex, with anterior margin in its apical third, hind margin obliqued posteriorly, reaching from IV to VIII interval, with small macular spot on III interval, maculae not regularly marginated, except anterior margin in humeral macula, which is almost flat. Body and legs black” [from French]. Later C. strachani depressus Alluaud, 1929 , was based on three specimens collected in Bas-Uele District, Orientale Province, DR Congo. Description (in part, see Alluaud 1929: 89). “...represent one well distinct subspecies (I do not establish one new different species, I prefer to treat it as a variant of C. strachani ). Body less convex posteriorly, markedly depressed on disc; yellow humeral maculae with more equalised spots, maculae often more serrate, because of mostly denticulated posterior margins; preapical maculae, without more equalised spots, but as well more serrate. Elytral margins moderately more rounded, creating more ovoid back of the body, less distinctly anteriorly as well as posteriorly” [from French]. Basilewsky added (1951b: 206). “ C. Strachani Hope is a rather variable species, yet I do not hesitate to separate this series of specimens which, as stated above, are quite similar to one another because of a certain variation in colourization which distinguishes west African from central African specimens at first sight. On the other hand, constant differences between true Strachani from West Africa and Milzi Duvivier (= depressus Alluaud) race from the North of Congo are not significant, yet present in all Congoan specimens. Therefore I consider all specimens from the French Congo and from the North of The Belgian Congo one subspecies ssp. Milzi, not greatly different from true Strachani ” [from French].

Distribution. Central African Republic, Democratic Congo: Équateur, Orientale Provinces.

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PLATE 3. Habitus of C. strachani group III (Scale bar: 10 mm). 18. C. tetrastigma tetrastigma (Laferté-Sénectere, 1851), lectotype male designated by Chaudoir, 1879; 19. C. tetrastigma tetrastigma (Laferté-Sénectere, 1851), paralectotype designated by Chaudoir, 1879, female; 20. C. tetrastigma morettoi n. ssp., HT (male); 21. C. tetrastigma morettoi n. ssp., PT female, western Ivory Coast; 22. C. tetrastigma morettoi n. ssp., PT male, Mali; 23. C. tetrastigma morettoi n. ssp., PT female, eastern Ivory Coast; 24. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) male, Central Africa; 25. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) female, DR Congo: Orientale (HT of C. strachani depressus Alluaud, 1929); 26. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) male, DR Congo: Orientale (PT of C. strachani depressus Alluaud, 1929); 25. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) female, DR Congo: Orientale.

PLATE 4. Specimens of C. strachani group I-III, underside. 28. C. klugii (Hope, 1842) female: dorsal habitus (left), ventrites (right); 29. C. klugii (Hope, 1842) male (HT): dorsal habitus (left), ventrites (right); 30. C. tetrastigma milzi (Duvivier, 1891) male: dorsal habitus (left), ventrites (right); 31 a. C. latipennis Burgeon, 1930, male: dorsal habitus (left), ventrites (right); b. left metepisterum, oblique ventral view; 32. C. strachani strachani (Hope, 1842) HT (male): dorsal habitus (left), detail with aedeagus (right); 33 a. C. latemaculatus Alluaud, 1930 HT (female): dorsal habitus (left), ventrites (right); b. left metepisternum, oblique ventral view; left metepisternum outined in yellow.

PLATE 12 Craspedophorus strachani group I, aedeagus in frontal and right lateral views: 91. C. strachani strachani (Hope, 1842), Sierra Leone; 92. C. strachani grossus (Hope, 1842), Togo; 93; C. strachani monardi (Basilewsky, 1951), Cameroon, North; 94. C. strachani bamendanus new subspecies, Cameroon, Northwest; 95. C. latipennis Burgeon, 1930; Cameroon, Southwest; 96. C. tetrastigma tetrastigma (Laferté-Sénectere, 1851), Guinea; 97. C. tetrastigma morettoi new subspecies, western Ivory Coast; 98. C. tetrastigma morettoi new subspecies, eastern Ivory Coast; 99. C. tetrastigma milzi Duvivier, 1891, Orientale, DR Congo; 100. C. latemaculatus Alluaud, 1930, Cameroon, Central.