Macrosiagon oberthurii (Fairmaire, 1879)

Batelka, Jan, 2010, A review of Ripiphoridae in the Arabian Peninsula (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 157-166 : 160

Macrosiagon oberthurii (Fairmaire, 1879)

( Figs. 12 , 18 )

Published records. FAIRMAIRE (1887: 303) (as Rhipiphorus melanurus Fairmaire, 1887 ): ‘Arabia, HOLOTYPE, sex unknown’. BATELKA (2007: 243): ‘Arabia’.

New record. BAHRAIN: 1 ♀ ( BMNH), ‘Persian Gulf: / Bahrain Island / New Camp [p] / 31.vi.1936 [hw] / J. Fernandez. / B.M. 1936-378 [p] // [?illegible] New Camp / 31.3.36 / Island / Bahrain [hw, original locality label; i.e., the correct date of collection is probably March, not June] // Macrosiagon [p] / tricuspidatum (Lep.) [hw] / det. ZHFalin ’96 [p] ’.

Distribution. Algeria, Tunisia, ‘Arabia’, Bahrain (new country record).

Figures

Figs. 9–14. Arabian Macrosiagon. 9 – M. elegans (Marseul, 1876), male; 10 – M. bipunctata (Fabricius, 1801), female from Dhawran; 11 – M. ferruginea (Fabricius, 1775), female from Jebel Jibir; 12 – M. oberthurii (Fairmaire, 1879), female from Bahrain; 13–14 – M. terminata (Laporte, 1840), females, two colour forms from Wadi Wurayah. Not to scale.

Fig. 18. Distribution of the Ripiphoridae in the Arabian Peninsula.