Cypholoba gracilis gracilis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Carabidae
Genus: Cypholoba
Name
Cypholoba gracilis (Dejean, 1831) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Anthia gracilis Dejean (1831[1]:468, type locality “cap de Bonne-Espérance,” holotype in Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris).
- Polyhirma gracilis (Dejean) Péringuey (1896[2]:342-343)
- Cypholoba gracilis gracilis (Dejean) Strohmeyer (1928[3]:303)
Diagnosis
Apparent body length (ABL) 17-20 mm; easily recognized by its slender body form, spindle-shaped pronotum, and lack of white setae or pubescence on the elytra. The shape and size of the elytral punctures (described in the key) will separate this subspecies from both Cypholoba gracilis scrobiculata and Cypholoba gracilis zuluana. In both Cypholoba gracilis gracilis and Cypholoba gracilis scrobiculata the shape of the elytra is sexually dimorphic and thus both forms are illustrated here.
Materials examined
35 specimens from the following localities: RSA: Eastern Cape Province: Aliwal North, Dorset. Free State Province: Bothaville. Gauteng Province: 11 km SE Bronkhorstspruit, Bronkhorstspruit, Brooklyn, Florida, Pretoria, Roodeplaat, Rosslyn, Welgedacht, Zoutpan, Zusterstroom. KwaZulu/Natal Province: Waterval. Limpopo Province: Messina, Moordrift, Naboomspruit, Nylsvley, Pietersburg, Rhenosterpoort, Smith Farm. Mpumalanga Province: Argent, 14 miles E Middelburg, Middelburg, Moloto, Waterval Onder. Northern Cape Province: Niekerk’s Hope in Griqualand West, Vanwyksfontein Farm. North West Province: Lichtenburg, Rustenburg.
Taxon Treatment
- Mawdsley, J; Erwin, T; Sithole, H; Mawdsley, A; 2012: A synopsis of the genus Cypholoba Chaudoir (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Anthiini) known to occur in the Republic of South Africa ZooKeys, 181: 23-43. doi
Other References
- ↑ Dejean P (1831) Species général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Baron Dejean, Tome V. Mequignon-Marvis Pére et Fils, Paris, viii + 883 pp.
- ↑ Péringuey L (1896) Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa, part II. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 7: 99-623.
- ↑ Strohmeyer G (1928) Systematisches und Zoogeographisches über die Cypholobini (Carab. Anthiinae), ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fauna des afrikanischen Trockenwaldes. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 14(2): 287–462 + 17 pls.
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