b) C. leprieuri species group Häckel 2017 (4 species)
C. cameronus Bates, 1886 . Cameroon, DR Congo: Orientale, Sud-Kivu Provinces; Equatorial Guinea, Gabon,
Guinea, Nigeria: Cross River State.
C. leprieuri leprieuri (Laporte de Castelnau, 1835), as Panagaeus . Cameroon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Togo.
C. leprieuri clasispilus (Alluaud 1915), as Eudema . Northern, central Cameroon, Central Africa, northern Congo, northeastern DR Congo: northern Orientale Province.
C. leprieuri guineensis Basilewsky, 1987 . Coast of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.
C. leprieuri peringueyi Csiki, 1929 . Mozambique: Niassa Province ; Tanzania: Morogoro, Ruvuma; eastern Zambia, eastern Zimbabwe .
C. leprieuri zambianus Häckel, 2017 . Angola: Lunda Norte Province; Burundi, Congo, DR Congo: Bandundu, Bas-Congo, Kasaï-Occidental, Katanga, Kinshasa, Sud-Kivu Provinces; Rwanda, Zambia.
C. merus merus Péringuey, 1904 . DR Congo : Kasaï-Occidental, Kasaï-Oriental, Katanga, Maniema, Orientale Provinces; Tanzania: Iringa, Ruvuma; Zimbabwe.
C. merus lundanus Häckel, 2017 . Angola: Lunda Norte Province ; Democratic Congo: Kasaï-Oriental, Katanga Provinces .
C. merus pseudofestivus Burgeon, 1930 . Burundi, DR Congo: Katanga, Orientale, Sud-Kivu Provinces; Rwanda, Tanzania: Kagera; Uganda.
C. pretiosus (Chaudoir, 1837), as Panagaeus . South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape Provinces.