Hycleus arabicus (Pallas, 1781) Bologna & Turco, 2007

Bologna, Marco A. & Turco, Federica, 2007, The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of the United Arab Emirates with an updated Arabian checklist, Zootaxa 1625 (1), pp. 1-33 : 23

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1625.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BB259DD-7895-44CB-82D6-0C7905049320

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB4051-D651-DC1A-229F-FF4EB3DD60CD

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scientific name

Hycleus arabicus (Pallas, 1781)
status

comb. nov.

Hycleus arabicus (Pallas, 1781) n. comb.

Meloe arabica Pallas, 1781

Distribution. Saudi Arabia, Yemen; new for Oman.

New records. Saudi Arabia: Hedjaz , 1 ex. ( BMNH). Lodar, 800 m, 16.v.1967 K. Guichardt coll. 3 exx. ( BMNH) .

Yemen: Yemen, Frey coll. 1 ex. ( BMNH). Aden, 3 exx. ( CB, BMNH). Lahej, 1 ex. ( BMNH). Lahej, Sufen, Oasis Fauna Sewell, 1 ex. ( BMNH). Tihama , iv.1980, Mochi coll. 1 ex. (C. Migliaccio) .

Oman. Dhofar, Khandrafi , 670 m, 1.x.1977 K. Guichardt coll. 2 exx. ( BMNH) .

Remarks. This species probably belongs to an Afrotropical group of the phyletic lineage characterized by “ Mesogorbatus - type ” mesosternum. Even if the elytral pattern and setation are very distinct, according to Pardo Alcaide (1965), it could be close to H. amplectens (Gerstaecker, 1871) and H. vestitus (Reiche, 1847) , both widely distributed in South-Saharan countries, because of the presence of a very posterior triangular suture on the mesosternum.

CB

The CB Rhizobium Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Meloidae

Genus

Hycleus

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