Faunistic inventory and zoogeographical analysis of the ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Garf Raydah Nature Reserve, Southwestern of Saudi Arabia, and description of a new species of Paussinae Author Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt. Author Rasool, Iftekhar King Saud University Museum of Arthropods (KSMA), Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460 Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. Author Elgharbawy, Ali A. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Al Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Author Nagel, Peter Biogeography Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, 4056 Basel, Switzerland Author Aldhafer, Hathal M. King Saud University Museum of Arthropods (KSMA), Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460 Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. text Zootaxa 2018 2018-11-08 4514 3 341 371 journal article 22642 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.3 54115d80-05ed-4ee7-b035-1ac714f9c31d 1175-5326 3770231 8F3F3680-5950-4FAB-B8DC-455FAC27535A Laemostenus sp. Material examined. GRNR : 2285 m : 19.XI.2015 , PT, 1 ♀ , GRNR : 2761 m : 21.X.2014 , PT, 1 ♂ . Life forms and Remarks. ZS(C) LB species. The above two specimens of the genus Laemostenus Bonelli, 1810 are the first records from KSA . These specimens belong to the L. quadricollis species group of subgenus Laemostenus (in the sense of Casale 1988 ), including L. aegyptiacus Schatzmayr, 1936 ; L. antonrichteri Casale, 1988 ; L. bergvalli Jeanne, 1996 ; L. croyi Casale & Wrase 2012 ; L. heinzi Casale, 1988 ; L. libanensis (Piochard de la Brûlerie, 1876) ; L. luristanus Casale, 1988 ; L. parallelocollis (Reiche, 1855) ; L. phoenicius Casale & Wrase, 2012 ; L. quadricollis (Redtenbacher, 1843) ; and L. sinaiticus Casale & Assmann, 2017 ( Casale & Assmann 2017 ). In the Near East and the Middle East this species group has been reported from CY , EG , IL , IR , LB , SY, TR ( Casale & Wrase 2012 ; Casale & Assmann 2017 ). During the present study, the two above adult specimens were collected by pitfall traps set in an African pencil cedar forest community at 2761 m and in an Olea europaea community at 2285 m . At this time, the identity of the species cannot be confirmed until additional material of this group becomes available to study morphological variability of this species group (A. Casale, personal communication).