Bembidion atlanticum atlanticum Wollaston, 1854

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 : 118-119

Bembidion atlanticum atlanticum Wollaston, 1854

Material examined.

892 m, 16.II.2014, LT, 1♂; 17.X.2014, LT, 1♀. 1,225 m: 02.IX.2015, LT, 1♀. 1,325 m: 15.XI.2015, LT, 1♀. 1,611 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 3♂, 1♀.

General distribution and zoogeography.

AE, AF, AM, AZ, BG, CV, CY, DZ, EG (including Sinai), FR, GE, GR, IL, IN, IQ, IR, KG, KZ, MA, MD, MR, MT, NE, PT, RU (South European Territory), SA, SY, TD, TJ, TM, TN, TR, UA, UZ, YE. AFR_ORR_PAL_SAR species.

Published records.

Asir, Baha and Riyadh (Basilewsky 1979; El-Hawagry et al. 2013; Abdel-Dayem et al. 2018).

Remarks.

A rare species that was collected during late summer, autumn, and winter by light trapping in Acacia thorn woodlands and Barbary fig shrub communities. Paolo Neri and Mahmoud Abdel-Dayem identified this subspecies.