The Dromiusina Bonelli, 1810 of southwestern Saudi Arabia with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini)
Author
Rasool, Iftekhar
Author
Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.
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Felix, Ron F. F. L.
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Aldhafer, Hathal M.
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ZooKeys
2018
771
73
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.771.24165
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.771.24165
1313-2970-771-73
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Calodromius Reitter, 1905
Type species.
Carabus quadrinotatus
Panzer, 1799 (=
Carabus spilotus
Illiger, 1798).
Calodromius
is poor in species among the subtribe
Dromiusina
, with only eight species in the world (
Anichtchenko 2017
), seven species of which are from the Palaearctic realm (
Kabak 2003
). The genus
Calodromius
can be identified among its related genera by combination of characters: antennomeres II shorter than III; pubescence starts from antennomeres IV; base of pronotum weakly incised towards hind angles; elytra broadened posteriorly; tarsomeres I of hind legs as long as last.
Calodromius mayeti
(Bedel 1907) is the only representative of the genus from Arabian Peninsula, recorded from Madina, Saudi Arabia (
Mateu 1986
).