Attagenus lynx (Mulsant & Rey, 1868)

Háva, Jiří, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2025, The subfamily Attageninae (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1243, pp. 107-130 : 107-130

Attagenus lynx (Mulsant & Rey, 1868)

Previous records.

Wadi Mizbil, Wadi Salbukh, Wadi Shaib Luha ( Mroczkowski 1979) in Riyadh Province.

Remarks.

The material mentioned by Mroczkowski (1979) needs to be examined, as it probably belongs to a different species. Specimens from Ibex Reserve, initially noted by Al Dhafer et al. (2012), were subsequently identified as A. scalaris . Similarly, specimens from Wadi Hanifa, identified by Abdel-Dayem et al. (2023), were later determined to belong to A. vanharteni and A. posticalis .

Distribution.

The species is found in the arid areas within the central region (Riyadh Province) of Saudi Arabia (Fig. 5 ) between 560 and 680 m a. s. l. It is globally known from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Finland (introduced), Egypt, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland (introduced), Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Figures

Figure 5. Distribution map of Attagenus species in Saudi Arabia: A. chakouri, A. cyphonoides, A. fasciatus, A. jakli, A. kadleci, A. lobatus, A. logunovi, and A. lynx.