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.
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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
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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.