Acinopus arabicus Wrase & Kataev, 2016

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 : 348

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.3799036
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Acinopus arabicus Wrase & Kataev, 2016
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Material examined. GRNR: 1614 m: 25.IV.2014, HP, 1 ♂ . MKV: 2717 m: 25.IV.2014, LT, 2 ♀ .

Distribution. END_SA species.

Life forms and Remarks. MGZT species. This species was recently described from Al Soudah (Asir Province) at an altitude range of 2800–3050 m . Al Soudah is located 3 km north of the GRNR, where the dominant plant vegetation is African pencil cedar. In GRNR, the adults were collected from the Opuntia ficus-indica community at lower altitude (1614 m) of the nature reserve and in the African pencil cedar forest at higher altitude in the north of the reserve (2717 m) .