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Dyschirius chalybeus subsp. gibbifrons Apfelbeck 1899
Authors/Creators
- 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
Dyschirius chalybeus gibbifrons Apfelbeck, 1899
Material examined. GRNR: 2761 m: 04.III.2015, LT, 1 ex.
Distribution. Dyschirius chalybeus gibbifrons has a PAL affinity, known from eastern and southern Europe (AL, AT, AZ, BG, CZ, GR, IT, MD, RO, RS, RU (South European Territory), SK, TR, UA), and this subspecies is also known from southwestern Asia: IL, IR, SA (Balkenohl 1994).
Life forms and Remarks. ZGDG (S) species. This is the first record from Asir Province of this subspecies. Previously known from Baha Province (Balkenohl 1994). The species was collected from the African pencil cedar forest.
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 361, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3770231
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- GRNR , ZGDG
- Event date
- 2015-03-04
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-03-04
- Scientific name authorship
- Apfelbeck
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Carabidae
- Genus
- Dyschirius
- Species
- gibbifrons
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dyschirius chalybeus subsp. gibbifrons Apfelbeck, 1899 sec. Abdel-Dayem, Rasool, Elgharbawy, Nagel & Aldhafer, 2018
References
- Balkenohl, M. (1994) The subfamily Scaritinae Bonelli, 1809 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 14, 59 - 70.