Dromius Bonelli, 1810
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Type species.
Carabus quadrimaculatus Linné, 1758.
The genus Dromius is type genus of subtribe Dromiusina , representing 105 species in the world ( Lorenz 2005) distributed in four subgenera ( Anichtchenko 2017). These species are distributed in almost all zoogeographical regions, Nearctic, Neotropical, Australian, Oriental, Afrotropical, and Palaearctic regions. In the Palaearctic it is represented by 53 species ( Bousquet 2012). This genus can be differentiated from other genera in the subtribe Dromiusina by elongate and parallel sided elytra; head small and with constricted neck; labrum semirounded, mentum without tooth; antennae long and cylindrical, pubescence starts from antennomeres IV; base of pronotum straightly truncate, and pronotum sometimes slightly sinuate posteriorly; tarsomeres I–III dilated in fore legs, basal tarsomere of hind legs as long as last, claws dentate; elytra usually with pale macula, apical margins of elytra obliquely truncate ( Lindroth 1974, Bousquet 2010). Only D. buettikeri Mateu, 1990 is described from Saudi Arabia and D. (Dromius) saudiarabicus sp. n. is described in the present work from Asir Province.
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