Published November 8, 2018 | Version v1
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Perileptus rutilus Schaum 1860

  • 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

Perileptus rutilus Schaum, 1860

Material examined. GRNR: 1772 m: 30.I.2015, LT, 1 ex.

Distribution. SAR element, occurring in the Saharan areas of Africa (EG, SD, TD) and in southwest Arabian Peninsula (YE). New for KSA.

Life forms and Remarks. ZS(C)EG species. Only one specimen was collected by a light trap set in an Opuntia ficus-indica 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 pages 363-364, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3770231

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
GRNR , LT
Event date
2015-01-30
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Perileptus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Schaum
Species
rutilus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2015-01-30
Taxonomic concept label
Perileptus rutilus Schaum, 1860 sec. Abdel-Dayem, Rasool, Elgharbawy, Nagel & Aldhafer, 2018