The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of the United Arab Emirates with an updated Arabian checklist Author Bologna, Marco A. Author Turco, Federica text Zootaxa 2007 2007-10-29 1625 1 1 33 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1625.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.1625.1.1 1175­5334 5103300 7BB259DD-7895-44CB-82D6-0C7905049320 Cyaneolytta fryi (Wollaston, 1861) Distribution. Sahelian species, widely distributed from the Cape Verde Islands and Senegal , through the Sahel, east to Sudan , Ethiopia and Djibouti . New for the Arabian Peninsula, where it represents an Afrotropical component. New records. Saudi Arabia : Wadi Jīzān , 18.viii.1979 , G. Filipponi coll. 3 exx. ( CB ); Wadi Lasaba , i.1946 , L. Tillin coll. 4 exx. on Suaeda thicket ( BMNH ); Shi-Aera, nr. Quafida, 2.ii.1946 , E. S. Brown coll. 11 exx. at light ( BMNH ); Asir , nr. Sabya, i.1945 , A. R . Waterstone coll. 2 exx. at light ( BMNH ) .