The Dromiusina Bonelli, 1810 of southwestern Saudi Arabia with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini) Author Rasool, Iftekhar Author Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. Author Felix, Ron F. F. L. Author Aldhafer, Hathal M. text ZooKeys 2018 771 73 103 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.771.24165 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.771.24165 1313-2970--73 E06BCC5814E445159B6198EBD9F035CA Dromius Bonelli, 1810 Type species. Carabus quadrimaculatus Linne , 1758. The genus Dromius is type genus of subtribe Dromiusina , representing 105 species in the world ( Lorenz 2005 ) distributed in four subgenera ( Anichtchenko 2017 ). These species are distributed in almost all zoogeographical regions, Nearctic, Neotropical, Australian, Oriental, Afrotropical, and Palaearctic regions. In the Palaearctic it is represented by 53 species ( Bousquet 2012 ). This genus can be differentiated from other genera in the subtribe Dromiusina by elongate and parallel sided elytra; head small and with constricted neck; labrum semirounded, mentum without tooth; antennae long and cylindrical, pubescence starts from antennomeres IV; base of pronotum straightly truncate, and pronotum sometimes slightly sinuate posteriorly; tarsomeres I-III dilated in fore legs, basal tarsomere of hind legs as long as last, claws dentate; elytra usually with pale macula, apical margins of elytra obliquely truncate ( Lindroth 1974 , Bousquet 2010 ). Only D. buettikeri Mateu, 1990 is described from Saudi Arabia and D. (Dromius) saudiarabicus sp. n. is described in the present work from Asir Province.