An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) with eight new records from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Author
Ansi, Amin Al
King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
alansiamin@yahoo.com
Author
Alkhalaf, Areej A.
Biology Department, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Author
Fadl, Hassan
Entomology Departments, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Author
Rasool, Iftekhar
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8955-2340
King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Author
Dhafer, Hathal Al
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-2332
King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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ZooKeys
2020
2020-12-21
1006
35
89
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1006.59123
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1006.59123
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Pharoscymnus setulosus (Chevrolat, 1861)
Pharus setulosus
Chevrolat, 1861: 269.
Remark.
No fresh material could be collected to examine this species. Two specimens from the collection of ANMA, collected by R.D. Pope in 1966, were examined. This species was found on a red scale insect,
Aonidiella
sp., according to the information described by R.D. Pope (1966),
Martin (1972)
and
Abu-Thuraya (1982)
.
Material examined.
Eastern Province
: Hafuf,
25°15'N
,
49°32'E
, VI.1966, ANMA, 2exs, det. Pope, 1966.
Local distribution.
Specimens were collected from the Eastern province of SA by Pope in 1966 and was also reported by
Fuersch
(1979)
from wadi Awsat and
Abu-Thuraya (1982)
from Eastern Province and was listed by
Martin (1972)
.
World distribution.
Asia
: AE, IN, PAL, JO, and SA;
Europe
: SP;
North Africa
: AG, EG, LB, MO, and TU (
Kovar
2007
).