Nephus (Bipunctatus) wittmeri Fuersch , 1979

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al, 2020, An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) with eight new records from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1006, pp. 35-89 : 35

Nephus (Bipunctatus) wittmeri Fuersch, 1979

Nephus wittmeri Fürsch, 1979: 245.

Remark.

This is a rare species reported only from the KSA and in a few Afrotropical countries.

Materials examined.

Asir: Al Magardah Wadi Yabah, 19°16.27'N, 41°48.46'E, 411, 2.VI.2012, BS, Al Ansi, A., 1♂; Baha: Thee Ain, 19°55.78'N, 41°26.60'E, 741 m, 11. V.2011, SN, Fadl et al., 1ex; Riyadh: Nursery, 29.IX.2007, SN, Al Dhafer et al., 1ex; Rawdhet Khoraim, 25°22.98'N, 47°16.71'E, 559 m, 18.II.2012, SN, 4exs, on R. steica .

Local distribution.

It was reported from Riyadh by Fürsch (1979); in the present study, it was collected from Asir and Baha. It was also reported from Riyadh by Abdel-Dayem et al. (2017).

World distribution.

A: SA; AFR ( Kovář 2007).