ISSN 0870-7227 Boletim da SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA de ENTOMOLOGIA Vol. VIII-14 Bolm Soc. Port. Ent. N.º 228 2013.07.31 GAZETTEER OF THE ANGOLAN LOCALITIES KNOWN FOR BEETLES (COLEOPTERA) AND BUTTERFLIES (LEPIDOPTERA: PAPILIONOIDEA) LUIS F. MENDES(1), A. BIVAR DE SOUSA(2), R. FIGUEIRA(3), & ARTUR R.M. SERRANO(4) Resumo: Apresenta-se uma lista de localidades de Angola de onde se tem conhecimento de se terem capturado coleópteros (Coleoptera) e lepidópteros diurnos (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). Para cada localidade são indicadas a Província administrativa, e as longitude, latitude e altitude aproximadas, assim como o número da correspondente carta de levantamento aero-fotogramétrico na escala de 1:100 000. Quando é conhecido mais do que um nome para a mesma localidade selecciona-se o mais recente e/ou com a ortografia mais correcta, sendo os restantes considerados sinónimos. Palavras-chave: Coleoptera; Lepidoptera; Papilionoidea; Localidades de capturas; Coordenadas; Angola. DICIONÁRIO GEOGRÁFICO DAS LOCALIDADES CONHECIDAS DE ANGOLA PARA OS COLEÓPTEROS (COLEOPTERA) E OS LEPIDÓPTEROS DIURNOS (LEPIDOPTERA, PAPILIONOIDEA) Abstract: A list of Angolan localities where beetles (Coleoptera) and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) were collected is presented. For each site the administrative Province, and the approximate longitude, latitude and altitude, as well as the number of the correspondent 1: 100 000 aero-photogrammetric survey map are reported. When more than one name is known to one only locality, the more recent denomination and/or the correct one is selected and the remaining ones are considered as synonyms. Key words: Coleoptera; Lepidoptera; Papilionoidea; Collecting localities; Coordinates; Angola. (1) Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT). JBT/Zoologia. R. da Junqueira, 14. 1300-343 Lisboa, Portugal. e-mail: [email protected] (2) Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia. Apartado 8221. 1803-001 Lisboa, Portugal. e-mail: [email protected] (3) Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT). JBT/Botânica. Tv. do Conde da Ribeira, 7. 1300-007 Lisboa, Portugal. e-mail: [email protected] (4) Centro de Biologia Ambiental/Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, R. Ernesto de Vasconcelos, C2, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal. e-mail: [email protected] 258 Bolm Soc. Port. Ent. n.º 228 (VIII-14): 258-292, 2013 INTRODUÇÃO CRAWFORD-CABRAL & MESQUITELA (1989) were the first authors to report in detail and as a whole a wide series of Angolan localities where zoological captures and/or observations were accomplished; however, their contribution concerned exclusively collecting localities of terrestrial Vertebrates. It was based in the abundant data reported by several explorers and registered in the course of several biological missions, as well as in the study of more recent zoological series deposited in several institutions, the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT) included. Joaquim José da Silva, F. Welwitsch, J. J. Monteiro, J. A. de Anchieta, H. Capello e R. Ivens, F. Newton, W. J. Ansorge, A. Monard, A. de Barros Machado, F. Frade, A. Rosa Pinto and J. Crawford- Cabral himself, are very important names among those that were responsible by the knowledge of the Angolan fauna and which collecting data are the base of that contribution. A number of zoological missions were also reported, from the German Expedition to the Loango (1873-1876) and the Rohan-Chabot Mission (1912-1914) to that organized by the Cape Town University and Wild Life Society in 1974, and the activity developed by the Portuguese missions was also enhanced: the Portuguese Missão do Centro de Zoologia da Junta de Investigações do Ultramar (today IICT), the Secções de Mamalogia e de Ornitologia do Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola and the Instituto de Investigação Médica de Angola (this one concerning plague vectors and its Vertebrates potential hosts). Indeed, papers previous to CRAWFORD-CABRAL & MESQUITELA (op. cit.) contribution are either fragmentary, concerning one only zoological group as it happens with the Angolan birds (TRAYLOR, 1962), the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) (e.g., RAMOS & RIBEIRO, 1975, RIBEIRO & RAMOS, 1973, 1975) or the fleas (Siphonaptera) and their vertebrate hosts (RIBEIRO, 1974) or partial results of entomological Missions (e.g., MONARD et al., 1956) or even they are based in non actualized maps which reported coordinates that are far from correct, as it happens with the Angolan Gazetteer (USBGN, 1956). A lot of Angolan entomological material was studied during the second half of nineteen century and the twenty century which are deposited namely in several European and United States of America Institutions and Museums. This work aims to give a geographic tool to entomological scientific community providing a gazetteer of more than 300 localities (almost 600 names, taking into account the different ways of writing and the old and recent names for one same locality) where Coleoptera and Papilionoidea butterflies studied or under study were collected in Angola. Mendes et al. Gazetteer of the Angolan loccalities 259 MATERIAL AND METHODS To each place (which certainly represents the closest locality and not the exact collecting spot), the administrative Province (between brackets, in capitals, after the locality name), the approximate latitude, longitude and altitude in meters, as well as (between brackets, at the end of each name) the number of the correspondent aero-photogrammetric survey maps of Angola (scale 1:100 000, edited by the JUNTA DE INVESTIGAÇÕES DO ULTRAMAR & GOVERNO GERAL DE ANGOLA (1948-1963) (JIU/GGA in the notes) are reported. These data were obtained directly from those maps, from Angola maps (1: 100 000 and 1: 250 000) and when vertebrate and coleoptera/lepidoptera were collected together, from CRAWFORD-CABRAL & MESQUITELA (1989) also (see Map in Fig. 1); a few ones were checked in the Internet “Global Gazetteer” site; when possible, changed names or incorrect orthographies, are set out for as (See ...) to their recent (or correct) name (between brackets, following the province and assigned as =). Moreover, most of the entomological material which study is being accomplished is deposited in the entomological collection of the CZ (Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Jardim Botânico Tropical / Zoologia) and in the collection of the second co-author (BS). The following abbreviations presented by alphabetical order and concerning localities and collections will be also used along the text: AF: Lieut.-Colon. António Figueira collection; CE: Centro de Estudos; Col.: Colonato (Colonate); EZ: Estação Zootécnica (Zootechnical Laboratory); F.: Fazenda (Farm); L.: Lago/Lagoa (Lake); M.: Missão (Mission); MRAC: Museum Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium; R.: Rio (River); PG: collection held by the late Capt. Gastão Pessoa Guerreiro, now in the CZ; and S.: Sanzala (African small village). A few places registered (mainly) by the classic authors are considered as “indeterminable” if they concern: 1. names of areas extended for more than one map, e.g. Alto Cuango, Rio Cuanza, Serra do Amboim or Vila Luso para Camacupa; or 2. names corresponding to two or more different localities in quite distinct areas and so, impossible to locate accurately, e.g. Bonge (at least three localities with the same name, each one in its own province (Bihé, Huambo and Huila). A few further places which location was impossible to determine are considered to be “untraceable”; most of them may correspond to erroneous spellings that we were not able to correct and some others names shall concern small (or abandoned, or disappeared) villages that were impossible to find in the consulted maps (e.g. Bula Matenga or Giri, for which not even the administrative provinces could be traced). Enquired Angolan people and Portuguese colleagues born in Angola and/or that lived for long in the country could not, nor even them, help to spot these localities. Some of those localities may even correspond to non- 260 Bolm Soc. Port. Ent. n.º 228 (VIII-14): 258-292, 2013 Angolan localities despite they were reported as being in Angola (e.g. Makweta or Thoumby), and they will be assigned in capitals. Some other localities reported to be in Angola are with no doubts part of Namibia or of the former Zaire, and their names are reported in this gazetteer also in capitals (e.g. Banana, in the Congo Democratic Republic or Enhanda and Omrora, both in Namibia). A few old names of regions or extended areas are interpreted mostly according to BROADLEY & MINSHULL (1986) and the localities explored in the beginning of the XX century along the southern Angola by WEYMER (1901, 1903) were localized mainly through WARBURG (1903) maps. RESULTS Gazetteer A Aeculo, R. (LUNDA NORTE) (= Jacolo, R.) – 10º 21’ S; 18º 51’ E; 1170 (155). Alto Capaca, CE (BENGUELA) – 12º 50’ S; 14º 27’ E; 1210 (253). Alto Cuango (LUNDA/MALANJE) (= Kuango) – Indeterminable. Alto Cubal (BENGUELA) – 12º 18’ S; 14º 10’ E; 1010 (229). Alto Lungué-Bungo (MOXICO) (= Alto Lungwe-Bungo; = Upper Lungwe R.) – 12º 35’ S; 18º 45’ E; 1290 (262). Alto Lungwe-Bungo --- See Alto Lungué-Bungo. Alto Minho, F. --- See Carmona, F., Alto Minho. Amboim, Serra do (KWANZA SUL) – Indeterminable (164). Amboíva (KUANZA SUL) – 11º 32’ S; 14º 44’ E; 1250 (208). Ambris --- See Ambriz. Ambriz (BENGO) (= Ambris; = Kinsembo) – 07º 51’ S; 13º 07’ E; <50 (54/5) - in BERNAUD (2009) Kininsembo is located north-westards from Ambriz, being the coordinates respectively as 07º 44’ S; 13º 03’ E and as 07º 57’ S; 13º 30’ E. Ambrizete (ZAIRE) – 07º 14’ S; 12º 52’ E; <50 (45). Andrada (Nzagi rivulet, tributary of the Luembe River) (LUNDA NORTE) – 07º 42’ S; 21º 23’ E; 675 (69). Artur de Paiva (HUILA) (= Vila da Ponte) – 14º 28’ S; 16º 18’ E; 1450 (321). Mendes et al. Gazetteer of the Angolan loccalities 261 Fig. 1 - Map of Angola with the numbers of the correspondent aero- photogrammetric survey (scale 1:100 000). [Modified from CRAWFORD- CABRAL & MESQUITELA (1989)]. 262 Bolm Soc. Port. Ent. n.º 228 (VIII-14): 258-292, 2013 B Baía dos Elefantes --- See Elefantes, Baía dos.