Perigona nigriceps (Dejean, 1831)

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 : 354

Perigona nigriceps (Dejean, 1831)

Material examined. WMS: 1251 m: 16.IV.2016, LT, 1 ex. GRNR: 1614 m: 31.VII.2015, LT, 2 exs; 26.VIII.2014, LT, 4 exs. 1772 m: 04.III.2015, LT, 3 exs. 1851 m: 31.VII.2015, LT, 1 ex. 1897 m: 26.IV.2014, LT, 1 ex.

Distribution. COS species ( Britton 1948; Felix 2009), known from Sub-Saharan Africa (AO, BI, CD, CG, CI, CM, ET, GH, GN, KE, KM, LR, MG, MU, NG, RE, RW, SC, SN, SL, ST, TZ, UG, ZA, ZM, ZW), southwest to southeast Asia (AE, AZ, CN, ID, IN, IQ, IR, JP, KH, KP, KR, LK, MM, PH, TH, TW, VN, YE), Europe (AT, BA, BE, BG, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IT, LU, LV, MD, NL, NO, PL, PT, RU, SE, SI, SK), Australia (AU, NC, NZ, PG, SB), and North America (BB, CA, CR, CU, GP, MQ, PR, US). A new record for KSA.

Life forms and Remarks. ZS(C)LB species. The above adults were collected from the Acacia community at the bottom of GRNR and from Opuntia ficus-indica and Olea europaea communities of GRNR from altitudes of 1614–1897 m.