Published December 17, 2012 | Version v1
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Dyschirius (Dyschiriodes) hessei Kult 1954

  • 1. Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden, The Netherlands; e-mail: Ron. Felix @ naturalis. nl
  • 2. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Kamýcká 129, CZ- 165 21, Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic; e-mail: farkac @ fld. czu. cz
  • 3. Conservation and Research Unit at the Environmental Protection Authority Socotra Island, Hadiboh, Yemen; e-mail: qamhem @ yahoo. com

Description

Dyschirius (Dyschiriodes) hessei Kult, 1954

Material examined (1 spec.). YEMEN: SOCOTRA ISLAND: dune Hayft (Nogget), 22.ii.2009, 1 spec., lgt. P.Lo Cascio & F. Grita, det. R.F.F.L. Felix (revid. by P. Bulirsch) (PLFG).

Diagnosis. Body length 2.9 mm. Yellowish brown, dull, covered with strong microsculpture. Frontoclypeal suture V-shaped. Frons with three keels. Pronotum longer than wide, with entire lateral border.

Collection circumstances. Only a single specimen was collected at light in an open sand dune area covered with shrubs at 250–300 m a.s.l.

Distribution. Ethiopia and mainland Yemen. First record from Socotra Island.

Notes

Published as part of Felix, Ron F. F. L., Farkač, Jan & Suleiman, Ahmed Saeed, 2012, Annotated checklist of the Carabidae (Coleoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago, pp. 75-106 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 on page 94, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5176756

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kult
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Dyschirius
Species
hessei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dyschirius (Dyschiriodes) hessei Kult, 1954 sec. Felix, Farkač & Suleiman, 2012