Dermestes (Dermestes) haemorrhoidalis Kuester , 1852

Hava, Jiri, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2023, The subfamily Dermestinae (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1138, pp. 161-173 : 161

Dermestes (Dermestes) haemorrhoidalis Kuester, 1852

Fig. 1C, D

Material examined.

Saudi Arabia • Riyadh Province, 1 ♀; Al Zulfi, Rawdhat Al Sablh ; 26°22.429'N, 44°58.241'E; 670 m a.s.l.; 26 Aug. 2015; H. Al Dhafer, M. Abdel-Deyem, A. El Torkey, A. El Gharbawy, & A. Solimanleg leg.; LT; J. Háva det.; KSMA .

Note.

The female specimen was collected at a low elevation (670 m) in a sandy area in central Saudi Arabia (Fig. 4A ). This represents a new record for Saudi Arabia.

Distribution.

Nearly cosmopolitan ( Háva 2015, 2022), where it is widely distributed in Europe; North Africa; Africa: Burundi, Congo, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia; Asia: China (Liaoning), Iran, Japan, Mongolia, Oman, Russia, South Korea, Vietnam; Australia: New Zealand (introduced); North America: USA; South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay.

Figures

Figure 1. Dorsal habitus and abdominal ventrites (photos by A. Herrmann) of Dermestes species A, B D. ater DeGeer, 1774 C, D D. haemorrhoidalis Kuester, 1852 E, F D. lardarius Linnaeus, 1758.

Figure 4. Distribution map of the Dermestinae species in Saudi Arabia A Dermestes ater, D. haemorrhoidalis, and D. undulatus B D. frischii C D. maculatus D D. lardarius, Mariouta stangei, and Rhopalosilpha wasmanni.