Hycleus argentifer bytinskii (Kaszab, 1969)

Bologna, Marco A. & Turco, Federica, 2007, The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of the United Arab Emirates with an updated Arabian checklist, Zootaxa 1625 (1), pp. 1-33 : 25-26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1625.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BB259DD-7895-44CB-82D6-0C7905049320
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5103399
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB4051-D65F-DC15-229F-FB11B2DC6438
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Hycleus argentifer bytinskii (Kaszab, 1969)
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Distribution. Polytypic Saharo-Arabian species: the nominate subspecies is distributed in Western Sahara, from Morocco to Libya; the ssp. bytinskii is recorded from Israel and Saudi Arabia, and the ssp. pallidissimus ( Kaszab, 1983) from Saudi Arabia.

New records. Saudi Arabia: Shiara , i.1946, L. A. Tillin coll. 2 exx. ( CB, BMNH) . Madā’ in Şālih , iv.1946, D. W. Fitzgerald coll. 1 ex. ( BMNH) .

Remarks. This species belongs to the group of H. octodecimmaculatus (see Pardo Alcaide 1962), characterized by a Mesoscutatus - type mesosternum and species with a number of antennomeres which varies from 9 to 11.