Brachypera isabellina (Boheman, 1834)

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Fad, Hassan H., El-Torkey, Ashraf M., Elgharbawy, Ali A., Aldryhim, Yousif N., Kondratieff, Boris C., Ansi, Amin N. Al & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2017, The beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Rawdhat Khorim National Park, Central Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 653, pp. 1-78 : 69

Brachypera isabellina (Boheman, 1834)

World distribution.

Asia: AE ( Magnano et al. 2009), IL, IQ, IR, JO, KW, QA, SA, SY, TR. Europe: IT (Sicilia). North Africa: DZ, EG, ES (Canary Islands), LY, MA, PT (Madeira Archipelago), TN.

General distribution.

SAR.

Local distribution.

Heyden (1913) just mentioned Arabia without any further detail about locality. Abdel-Dayem et al. (2015) have been confirmed the occurrence of the species in KSA: RI.

Collecting month and method.

A rare species. The beetles were collected by PT under canopies of Calotropis procera , Rhazya stricta and Ziziphus nummularia during II, VIII and XII.