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- Inventory of tiger- and ground-beetles (Coleoptera, Caraboidea, Cicindelidae and Carabidae) in two sampling seasons of the Gorongosa National Park, MozambiquePublication . Serrano, Artur; Baptista, Martim; Carvalho, Rui; Boieiro, Mário; Mendes, Sara; Bartz, M. L. C.; Timóteo, Sérgio; Pereira, Henrique; Aguiar, Carlos; Alves Da Silva, António; Alves, Joana; Briones, Maria; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Sousa, José; Martins da Silva, PedroABSTRACT: The Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique) is one of the most emblematic protected areas in Africa, well known for its vertebrate biodiversity and restoration ecology efforts following the Mozambican civil war in 1992. The invertebrate biodiversity of Gorongosa National Park is still poorly studied, although the scarce information available indicates the existence of a rich number of species, namely in the case of tiger- and ground-beetles (Coleoptera, Caraboidea). Moreover, the study of arthropod assemblages is key for designing conservation practices since they are potentially accurate biodiversity and ecological indicators. Hence, the diversity assessment of Caraboidea beetles using standardised methodologies is likely to provide a new insight for future conservation planning and help to quantify the effects of climate change in areas identified as vulnerable to anthropogenic pressures, such as the Gorongosa National Park.
- Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Desertas Islands (Madeira archipelago, Portugal): description of a new subspecies and faunistic notesPublication . Serrano, Artur; Aguiar, Carlos; Cardoso, Pedro; Pereira, Fernando; Padro e Castro, Catarina; Rego, Carla; Silva, Isamberto; Canelas Boieiro, Mário RuiABSTRACT: We update the knowledge on the ground beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Desertas Islands and provide novel information on species distribution in the three islands (Ilhéu Chão, Deserta Grande and Bugio) following two entomological missions carried out in 2011 and 2012. An annotated checklist of the 33 species and subspecies known to occur in the Desertas Islands is presented, jointly with data on their distribution and ecology. Philorhizus melanocephalus (Dejean) is recorded for the first time for Madeira archipelago, four other taxa are new records for the Desertas Islands: Apotomus chaudoirii Wollaston, Ocys harpaloides (Serville), Paradromius (Manodromius) insularis oceanicus (Wollaston) and Syntomus fuscomaculatus (Motschulsky) and several species are for the first time recorded for specific Desertas’ islands. Furthermore, a new subspecies of the genus Orthomus Chaudoir, 1838 sampled by direct collection in Bugio is described: O. (Nesorthomus) bedelianus isambertoi Serrano & Boieiro, ssp. nov. with its habitus and aedeagus illustrated. The new subspecies is compared with the closely related Orthomus (Nesorthomus) bedelianus bedelianus (Lutshnik) from Madeira Island. A historical review of the research on the ground beetles of the Desertas Islands is presented, along with considerations on beetle species rarity and the conservation measures needed to protect them. This information will be helpful to support biodiversity conservation management in the Desertas Islands.