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
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Calosoma imbricatum
Klug, 1832
Material examined.
GRNR
:
1772 m
:
18.XI.2015
,
LT
,
1 ex.
Distribution.
AFR_SAR species that is distributed in the Afrotropical region, found in Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa (BF, CV, DJ, DZ, EG, ER, ET, LY, ML, NE, SD, SN, SO, TD) and eastward across southwestern Asia (AE, IQ, IR, KW, LB, OM, QA, SA, YE) to southern Asia (PK).
Life forms and Remarks.
ZEWL species. It is reported from
Baha
(
El-Hawagry
et al.
2013
)
Jizan
,
Makkah
(
Britton 1948
),
Eastern Province
(
Heinertz 1979
), and
Riyadh
(
Heinertz 1979
;
Abdel-Dayem
et al.
2017
). This species is new for
Asir Province
. The species was collected from an
Opuntia ficus-indica
vegetation community.