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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Acinopus arabicus
Wrase & Kataev, 2016
Material examined.
GRNR
:
1614 m
:
25.IV.2014
, HP,
1 ♂
. MKV:
2717 m
:
25.IV.2014
,
LT
,
2 ♀
.
Distribution.
END_SA species.
Life forms and Remarks.
MGZT
species.
This
species was recently described from
Al Soudah
(
Asir Province
) at an altitude range of
2800–3050 m
. Al Soudah is located
3 km
north of the
GRNR
, where the dominant plant vegetation is
African
pencil cedar.
In
GRNR
, the adults were collected from the
Opuntia ficus-indica
community at lower altitude (
1614 m
) of the nature reserve and in the
African
pencil cedar forest at higher altitude in the north of the reserve (
2717 m
)
.