Macrosiagon ferruginea (Fabricius, 1775)

Batelka, Jan, 2010, A review of Ripiphoridae in the Arabian Peninsula (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 157-166 : 159-160

Macrosiagon ferruginea (Fabricius, 1775)

( Figs. 11 , 18 )

Published record. BATELKA (2008a: 254): ‘ U.A.E., Rus al-Jibal Mts., Jebel Jibir, 1 ♀, 27.iii.2007 ’.

New records. OMAN: 1 ♀ ( JBCP), ‘ Wadi Ashawq / 16°53’83N 53°46’31E / m 40 – 23.09.2001 / su Aerva javanica // Oman / Dhofar region / Dellacasa leg. // Museo di Storia / Naturalle e del / Territorio / Universita di Pisa / Calci (Pisa) – Italy [p] ; 2 ♀♀ ( MSNTC), ‘ Oman 2002 – Dhofar / Wadi Ashawq / 16°53’9N – 53°46’3E / 12. IX. mt 30 / leg. F. Strumia // Museo di Storia / Naturalle e del / Territorio / Universita di Pisa / Calci (Pisa) – Italy [p] ; 1 ♀ ( MSNTC), ‘ Al Mughsayl dint. / 16°53’83N / 53°46’31E [according to given coordinates it is identical with the previous locality] / 40 m / 06.09.2002 // Oman / Dhofar region / Leg. Dellacasa M. // Museo di Storia / Naturalle e del / Territorio / Universita di Pisa / Calci (Pisa) – Italy [p] // Macrosiagon / cf. ferrugineum (F.)) [hw] / det. R. Poggi [p], 2002 [hw] . YEMEN: 3 ♀♀ ( BMNH), ‘ Lakej / 95 – 69 [p] ’; 1 ♀ ( BMNH), ‘ Aden [hw] / 86.24 [p] ’;

1 specimen (BMNH), ‘ Aden / 84.29 [hw] // Mordella / ferruginea / Fab [hw] // Macrosiagon [p] / signaticolle / Pic [hw] / det. ZHFalin ’96 [p]’.

Note. BEDEL (1895: 191, footnote) reported two specimens of this species allegedly collected in April 1895 by Dr. Ch. Martin in ‘El-Hadj (Arabie)’. However, I failed to find any place with such a name in the Arabian Peninsula. The locality might belong to some country in the North Africa, where several places of the same name exist ( ENCARTA 2000). This record was probably repeated by CSIKI (1913) as ‘Arabia’ and I have therefore decided to exclude both references from the list of known localities.

Distribution. South Europe, Africa, Asia, Oman (new country record), United Arab Emirates, Yemen (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.