Pseudomesolestes quadriguttatus Mateu, 1979

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 : 109

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.812.30937

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F105E9A6-A4F8-4220-9E17-98923FC6535F

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pseudomesolestes quadriguttatus Mateu, 1979
status

 

Pseudomesolestes quadriguttatus Mateu, 1979 View in CoL

Material examined.

851 m: 15.XI.2015, LT, 1♀. 892 m: 26.I.2015, LT, 1♀; 17.X.2014, LT, 1♂; 18.X.2014, LT, 1♂, 2♀; 15.XI.2015, LT, 1♀. 1,325 m: 02.III.2015, LT, 1♂. 1,563 m: 17.X.2014, LT, 1♀.

General distribution and zoogeography.

SA. END_SA species.

Published records.

Asir and Baha ( Rasool et al. 2018b), Riyadh ( Mateu 1979).

Remarks.

A rare species that was collected by light trapping during late summer (September), autumn, and winter. Iftekhar Rasool, Mahmoud Abdel-Dayem and Ron Felix identified this species.