Prothyma leprieuri (Dejean, 1831)

Serrano, Artur R. M., 2007, Notes on tiger beetles from Guinea-Bissau, with description of a new species of Cylindera Westwood (Insecta: Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) *, Zootaxa 1630, pp. 1-21 : 5

Prothyma leprieuri (Dejean, 1831)

Geographic distribution: Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, People`s Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Yemen.

Distribution in Guinea –Bissau: 1, 23, 32, 36, 38, 43.

Specimens sampled: Mampatá-Nhacobá, 12.VII.2006, 2 ɗ, “WL”, ( AS).

Remarks: A species recorded for several countries of Africa throughout the northern, central and eastern regions. Apparently, and in accordance with Guérin-Méneville (1849), the adults of this species have the same behaviour of P. concinna cursor . However, we never found P. leprieuri during the day, it was always sampled at light (“BL” and “WL”).