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.
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-08
4514
3
341
371
journal article
22642
10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.3
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1175-5326
3770231
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Apotomus clypeonitens clypeonitens
J. Müller, 1943
Material examined.
WMR:
1150 m
:
04.IV.2017
,
LT
,
1 ♂
.
Distribution.
It is a PAL species that is distributed throughout the Mediterranean Basin (ES, FR, MA). A new record for the Arabian Peninsula.
Life forms and Remarks.
ZGRD species. The adult specimen was collected from an area dominated by
Acacia
spp. at an altitude of
1150 m
at the bottom of GRNR.