Published November 8, 2018 | Version v1
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Abacetus crenulatus Dejean 1931

  • 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

Abacetus crenulatus Dejean, 1931

Material examined. WMR: 1150 m: 16.IV.2016, LT, 3 ♂, 3 ♀. 1467 m: 23.II.2014, HP, 1 ♂, 2 ♀. GRNR: 1614 m: 31.VII.2015, LT, 1 ♂. 1897 m: 26.IV.2014, LT, 1 ♀.

Distribution. AFR species distributed in western and central Africa (BF, BJ, CI, ML, MR, SN, TD. A new record for the Arabian Peninsula.

Life forms and Remarks. ZS(D)LS. It was collected from an area dominated by Acacia at the bottom of GRNR and also from Opuntia ficus-indica dominated community within the GRNR.

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 360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3770231

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LT
Event date
2014-04-26 , 2015-07-31 , 2016-04-16
Verbatim event date
2014-04-26 , 2015-07-31 , 2016-04-16
Scientific name authorship
Dejean
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Abacetus
Species
crenulatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Abacetus crenulatus Dejean, 1931 sec. Abdel-Dayem, Rasool, Elgharbawy, Nagel & Aldhafer, 2018