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 Abacetus crenulatus Dejean, 1931 Material examined. WMR: 1150 m : 16.IV.2016 , LT , 3 ♂ , 3 ♀ . 1467 m : 23.II.2014 , HP, 1 ♂ , 2 ♀ . GRNR : 1614 m : 31.VII.2015 , LT , 1 ♂ . 1897 m : 26.IV.2014 , LT , 1 ♀ . Distribution. AFR species distributed in western and central Africa (BF, BJ, CI, ML, MR, SN, TD. A new record for the Arabian Peninsula. Life forms and Remarks. ZS(D)LS. It was collected from an area dominated by Acacia at the bottom of GRNR and also from Opuntia ficus-indica dominated community within the GRNR.