Bulaea lividula bocandei Mulsant, 1850

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

Bulaea lividula bocandei Mulsant, 1850

Bulaea bocandei Mulsant, 1850: 71, 1016.

Remarks.

Members of Bulaea are phytophagous and feed on the pollen of plants. This species was collected on Aerva javanica (Burm. f.) Juss. ex Schult ( Amaranthaceae ), and it was also known to feed on leaves and pollen ( Raimundo et al. 2007).

Material examined.

Asir: Al Majardah, Wadi Khat, 19°05.37'N, 41°58.37'E, 31.V.2012, BS, Al Ansi, A., 1♀12exs; Wadi Qanunah, 19°24.67'N, 41°36.39'E, 348 m, 11.V.2011, SN, Fadl, H.; Setyaningrum et al., 1ex; Wadi Yabah, 19°16.27'N, 41°48.46'E, 411, 15.IV.2016, SN, Soliman, A., 2exs; Maraha, Wadi Reem, 17°52.55'N, 42°16.66'E, 136 m, 9.II.2016, SN, Fadl, H., 2exs; Maraha, Wadi Ramlan, 17°47.18'N, 42°22.95'E, 180 m, 9.II.2016, SN, Al Ansi, A., 3exs; SU, Al Ansi, A., 12exs; Baha: Thee Ain, 19°55.78'N, 41°26.60'E, 741 m, 14.IV.2016, SN, Soliman, A., 1ex; Jizan: Abu Arish Wadi Jizan, 17°01.34'N, 42°56.73'E, 127 m, 21.V.2012, BS, Al Ansi, A., 577exs; 21.V.2012, BS, Al Ansi, A., 4♂2♀; Hurub-Al Sahaleel Rd., 17°47.34'N, 42°85.65'E, 456 m, 24.V.2012, BS, Al Ansi, A., 7exs; Al Aydabi Jaorat Aiban, 17°25.53'N, 43°03.50'E, 343 m, 23.V.2012, SN, Al Ansi, A., 2exs; 11.XI.2012, BS, Fadl, H., 21exs; Al Aydabi Haqu Fifa, 17°21.54'N, 43°02.62'E, 237 m, 21.V.2012, SN, Al Ansi, A., 1ex; Aiban Sabya Rd. Wadi Shahadan, 13.XI.2012, BS, Fadl, H., 6exs; Jizan-Addarab Wadi Baiz, 17°37.56'N, 42°22.24'E, 249 m, 24.II.2015, HP, Al Harbi, M., 6exs; Jizan, 10.II.1982, SN, Talhouk et al., ANMA, 22exs; 25.XII.1980, SN, Talhouk et al., ANMA, 3exs; 15.VIII.1982, SN, Talhouk et al., ANMA, 1ex. Riyadh: Al Uyaynah, 24°53'N, 46°22'E, 24.V.2007, SN, 1ex; Rawdhet Khoraim, 25°22.98'N, 47°16.71'E, 559 m, 29.VIII.2013, BS, 1ex, on Ziziphus nummularia ; Wadi Ad Dawasir, 20°25.83'N, 44°56.53'E, 641 m, 17.I.2013, BS, Al Ansi et al., 10exs.

Local distribution.

This species was found in Asir, Baha, Jizan, and Riyadh, but the majority of specimens of B. lividula bocandei were collected from several localities of Jizan province. This species was previously reported by Kapur (1959) from Asir, by Fürsch (1979) from the Eastern region and by Abdel-Dayem et al. (2017) from Riyadh.

World distribution.

Asia: AE, IN, IQ, PAL, JO, PA, SA, SY, and YE; North Africa: AG, EG, and MO; AFR ( Kovář 2007).