Merizomena buettikeri (Mateu, 1986)

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Elgharbawy, Ali A., Rasool, Iftekhar, Nagel, Peter & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2019, The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Shada Al-A'Ala Nature Reserve, Southwestern Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of Paussinae, ZooKeys 812, pp. 93-131 : 107

Merizomena buettikeri (Mateu, 1986)

Material examined.

825 m: 13.XI.2015, LT, 2♀; 15.XI.2015, LT, 20 exs. 851 m: 14.XI.2015, LT, 23 exs; 15.XI.2015, LT, 1♂, 2♀. 892 m: 13.XI.2015, LT, 1♀; 15.XI.2015, LT, 24 exs. 1,225 m: 17.X.2015, LT, 1♀; 12.XI.2015, LT, 1♂, 1♀; 14.XI.2015, LT, 1♂, 2♀;. 1611m: 23.VIII.2014, LT, 1♀.

General distribution and zoogeography.

SA. END_SA species.

Published records.

Asir and Riyadh ( Abdel-Dayem et al. 2017, 2018), Madinah and Najran ( Mateu 1986). New record for Baha Province.

Remarks.

A common species with more individuals collected during autumn from Acacia thorn woodlands and relatively few individuals during late summer from a Barbary fig shrub community. Iftekhar Rasool, Mahmoud Abdel-Dayem and Ron Felix identified this species.