Perileptus areolatus Creutzer, 1799

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 : 120-121

Perileptus areolatus Creutzer, 1799

Material examined.

1,225 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 2 exs; 02.III.2015, LT, 11 exs; 21.IV.2014, LT, 1 ex. 1,325 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 1 ex; 02.III.2015, LT, 2 exs; 05.V.2015, 2 exs. 1,474 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 2 exs; 02.III.2015, LT, 2 exs. 1,563 m: 21.IV.2014, LT, 1 ex; 05.V.2015, LT, 1 ex. 1,611 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 1 ex. 1,666 m: 03.V.2015, PT, 1 ex.

General distribution and zoogeography.

AL, AM, AT, AZ, BA, BE, BG, CH, CZ, DE, DZ, ES, FR, GB, GE, GR, HR, HU, IE, IL, IR, IT, LT, LV, MA, MD, MK, NO, PL, PT, RO, RU, SA, SE, SI, SK, SY, TN, TR, UA. PAL_SAR species.

Published records.

Makkah (Britton 1948). New record for Baha Province.

Remarks.

A frequent species that was collected during winter and spring from Acacia thorn woodlands and Barbary fig communities. Mahmoud Abdel-Dayem identified this species.