Faunistic inventory and zoogeographical analysis of the ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Garf Raydah Nature Reserve, Southwestern of Saudi Arabia, and description of a new species of Paussinae Author Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt. Author Rasool, Iftekhar King Saud University Museum of Arthropods (KSMA), Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460 Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. Author Elgharbawy, Ali A. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Al Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Author Nagel, Peter Biogeography Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, 4056 Basel, Switzerland Author Aldhafer, Hathal M. King Saud University Museum of Arthropods (KSMA), Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460 Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. text Zootaxa 2018 2018-11-08 4514 3 341 371 journal article
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Lebia nilotica Chaudoir, 1871
Material examined.
GRNR
: 1614 m: 30.I.2015
,
LT
, 1 ♂. MKV: 2717 m: 26.IV.2014
,
LT
, 1 ♂
.
Distribution. SAR species known from northeastern Africa (EG) and southwestern Asia (IQ, SA).
Life forms and Remarks. ZPLD species. Previously recorded by
Mateu (1979)
from Asir Province and recently listed from Asir, Baha, and Jizan provinces (
Rasool et al. 2018a
). In the GRNR, adults were collected from the
Opuntia ficus-indica
community, at an altitude of 1614 m; and also from the African pencil cedar forests at 2717 m in the immediate north area.