Afrotarus soudaensis Rasool, Felix & Abdel-Dayem, 2017

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, Zootaxa 4514 (3), pp. 341-371 : 350

Afrotarus soudaensis Rasool, Felix & Abdel-Dayem, 2017

Material examined. GRNR: 2409 m: 4.XI.2013, HP, 1 ♀ ; 21.II.2014, HP, 1 ♀; 22.II.2014, HP, 3 ♂, 3 ♀; 26.IV.2014, HP, 2 ♀; 16.IV.2014, HP, 1 ♂. 2761 m: 11.XII.2014, PT, 2 ♀; 02.IV.2017, HP, 1 ex. AZV: 2591 m: 14.XI.2012, HP, 4 ♂, 4 ♀ .

Distribution: END_SA, only known from the SA type locality of the southwestern Arabian Peninsula.

Life forms and Remarks. ZPLD species. Al Soudah Mountain ( Wadi Gouze and GRNR) (2363–2820 m.a.s.l.) at Asir Province, where the holotype and paratypes were collected ( Rasool et al. 2017). The adults were collected under stones in the African pencil cedar forests at different altitudes (2409–2761 m) .