Trachyderma philistina Reiche & Saulcy, 1857

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 : 53

Trachyderma philistina Reiche & Saulcy, 1857

World distribution.

Asia: AE, BH, CY, EG (Sinai), IL, IQ, IR, JO, OM, SA, SY, TR, YE. Europe: GR. North Africa: EG. According to the Palaearctic catalogue Trachyderma philistina occurs east of the Arabian Peninsula also in Iran and in the ORR region ( Löbl et al. 2008). However, the known distribution of species indicates its absence from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. The only record available from western India apparently is by Kaszab (1982). This record is a misidentification and Kaszab (1982) did not specifically mention this species from Afghanistan (W. Schawaller, personal communication, February 29 2016).

General distribution.

PAL_SAR.

Local distribution.

EP, HA, MK, NJ, QS, RI, TB ( Kaszab 1979 1982)

Collecting month and method.

Rare species that was collected by HP and PT through III-VI, X and XII.