Published December 17, 2012 | Version v1
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Polyderis gilvus

  • 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

Polyderis gilvus (Schaum, 1863)

Material examined (27 spec.). YEMEN: SOCOTRA ISLAND: Wadi Ayhaft, camp, 12°36′58.7″N, 53°59′30.6″E, 22.ii.2009, at light, 1 spec., lgt. & det. R.F.F.L. Felix (RFBE); Adhoh di-Melhoh, 12°34′19.9″N, 54°02′49.0″E, 31.x.2010, at light, 26 spec., lgt. & det. R.F.F.L. Felix (RFBE). Some of these specimens were re-identified by Jacques Coulon.

Diagnosis. Body length 2.0–2.5 mm. Uniformly yellow. Pronotum transverse, lateral margins strongly sinuate, posterior angles sharp. Each elytron with two distinct striae, third stria vague, remaining striae invisible.

Distribution. Known from Yemen, eastern Africa and Madagascar. 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 97, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5176756

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RFBE
Event date
2009-02-22 , 2010-10-31
Verbatim event date
2009-02-22 , 2010-10-31
Scientific name authorship
Schaum
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Polyderis
Species
gilvus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Polyderis gilvus (Schaum, 1863) sec. Felix, Farkač & Suleiman, 2012