Metadromius brittoni (Basilewsky, 1948)

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Rasool, Iftekhar, Elgharbawy, Ali A., Nagel, Peter & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2018, 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, Zootaxa 4514 (3), pp. 341-371 : 353

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8F3F3680-5950-4FAB-B8DC-455FAC27535A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3799006
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scientific name	Metadromius brittoni (Basilewsky, 1948)
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Metadromius brittoni (Basilewsky, 1948) View in CoL

Material examined. WMR: 1467 m: 23.II.2014, HP, 2 ♂, 2 ♀; 04.IV.2017, LT, 3 exs. GRNR: 1614 m: 24.II.2014, LT, 1 ♂ ; 24.III.2014, LT, 6 ♂, 20 ♀ ; 26.IV.2014, LT, 26 ♂, 28 ♀ ; 20.X.2014, LT, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ . 1772 m: 26.VIII.2014, LT, 1 ♀ , 1851 m: 26.IV.2014, LT, 1 ♀ ; 06. VI .2014 , LT, 1 ♂. 1897 m: 26.IV.2014, LT, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ . 2285 m: 26.IV.2014, LT, 2 ♂ ; 11.XII.2014, LT, 5 ♂, 3 ♀ .

Distribution. Species with SAR affinity, distributed in JO, SA, YE ( Britton 1948).

Life forms and Remarks. ZS(C)LC species. This species was described from Aden, Yemen and recorded from Asir, Baha and Jizan ( Rasool et al. 2018b), and from Riyadh Province ( Mateu 1979). The adults were collected from Acacia , Opuntia ficus-indica , Olea europaea communities at altitudes of 1467–2285 m.