Torretassoa alfierii Schatzmayr & Koch, 1933

Bulirsch, Petr & Stachowiak, Mieczyslaw, 2017, Overview and new records of the species of the tribes Dyschiriini and Clivinini from Iraq (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scaritinae), ZooKeys 672, pp. 135-144 : 139

Torretassoa alfierii Schatzmayr & Koch, 1933

Studied material.

Paratypus, Egitto, Helwan , 18.ii.1935, W. Wittmer; 5 specimens : Iran Prov. Markazi, Kavir Desert, Houz-e Soltan , 830m, 3 km S Kushk-e Nosrat; 35°5'14"N, 50°55'26"E, at light, 28.vi.2000, leg. Kálmán Székely, (HNHM, PBPC) ;

New record.

1 specimen: Iraq: Tharthar Lake, vii-viii.1977, leg. J. Pawłowski, on banks of lake, in detritus, together with D. clypeatus , (ISEA) - Fig. 1 ., the first record in Iraq.

Comment.

The genus includes a single species described from Heluan in Egypt and then reported from Karaman Island in Yemen ( Fedorenko 1996), Iran and Saudi Arabia (Gueorguiev 2011).

Figures

Figure 1. Habitus of Torretassoa alfierii Schatzm. & Koch from Iraq. Scale bar 1 mm.