Pheropsophus bohemani Chaudoir 1876

Elytra black, without yellow outer margin, with basal and dicoidal yellow patches; thorax marginated with black.

Original description in:
Caudoir, M. 1876. Monographie des Brachynides. In: Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 19.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45830#page/42/mode/1up

Redescription, illustration & key in:
Peringuey, L. 1896. Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. The Coleoptera of South Africa. Part II. Carabidae. -. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 7.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36877446#page/202/mode/1up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36877446#page/203/mode/1up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36877446#page/657/mode/1up
Head, prothorax, antennae, and legs brick-red; prothorax narrowly marginated with black on the outer sides, and with a subtriangular patch of the same colour at the apex and base; elytra a little broader than the prothorax at the base, gradually ampliated from the shoulders to the apex, where they are nearly twice as broad, black, shining, with the costae raised, and having on each side a basal yellowish patch varying in size but nearly always covering three costae, a median discoidal patch also varying in size, bisinuated, and reaching from the second to the sixth costa, but not reaching the outer margin, and a narrow apical margin of the same colour ascending a little along the tip of the costae; under side black, with the pectus more or less yellowish. Length 16-18 mm.; width 6.5- 8 mm.
The median discoidal patch varies in width, being at times very narrow.

iNat observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208668027

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