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 Hycleus argentifer bytinskii (Kaszab, 1969) Distribution. Polytypic Saharo-Arabian species: the nominate subspecies is distributed in Western Sahara , from Morocco to Libya ; the ssp. bytinskii is recorded from Israel and Saudi Arabia , and the ssp. pallidissimus ( Kaszab, 1983 ) from Saudi Arabia . New records. Saudi Arabia : Shiara , i.1946 , L. A. Tillin coll. 2 exx. ( CB , BMNH ) . Madā’ in Şālih , iv.1946 , D. W. Fitzgerald coll. 1 ex. ( BMNH ) . Remarks. This species belongs to the group of H. octodecimmaculatus (see Pardo Alcaide 1962), characterized by a Mesoscutatus - type mesosternum and species with a number of antennomeres which varies from 9 to 11.