Published November 8, 2018 | Version v1
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Brachinus dorsalis Dejean 1831

  • 1. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Al Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
  • 4. Biogeography Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, 4056 Basel, Switzerland

Description

Brachinus dorsalis Dejean, 1831

Material examined. GRNR: 1851 m: 04.III.2015, LT, 1 ♂.

Distribution. END_AR species that is confined to the southwestern Arabian Peninsula (SA, YE).

Life forms and Remarks. ZS(C)LC species. The single male is the first record of this species from Asir Province and this species was previously recorded from Jizan Province by Mateu (1990). The species was collected from an Olea europaea vegetation community.

Notes

Published as part of Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Rasool, Iftekhar, Elgharbawy, Ali A., Nagel, Peter & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2018, 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, pp. 341-371 in Zootaxa 4514 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3770231

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
GRNR
Event date
2015-03-04
Verbatim event date
2015-03-04
Scientific name authorship
Dejean
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Brachinus
Species
dorsalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Brachinus dorsalis Dejean, 1831 sec. Abdel-Dayem, Rasool, Elgharbawy, Nagel & Aldhafer, 2018

References

  • Mateu, J. (1990) Carabiques recoltes au Nord-Yemen par M. G. de Rougemont. Bollettino del Museo regionale di scienze naturali-Torino, 8 (1), 33 - 44.