Pharoscymnus setulosus (Chevrolat, 1861)

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al, 2020, An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) with eight new records from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1006, pp. 35-89 : 35

Pharoscymnus setulosus (Chevrolat, 1861)

Pharus setulosus Chevrolat, 1861: 269.

Remark.

No fresh material could be collected to examine this species. Two specimens from the collection of ANMA, collected by R.D. Pope in 1966, were examined. This species was found on a red scale insect, Aonidiella sp., according to the information described by R.D. Pope (1966), Martin (1972) and Abu-Thuraya (1982).

Material examined.

Eastern Province: Hafuf, 25°15'N, 49°32'E, VI.1966, ANMA, 2exs, det. Pope, 1966.

Local distribution.

Specimens were collected from the Eastern province of SA by Pope in 1966 and was also reported by Fürsch (1979) from wadi Awsat and Abu-Thuraya (1982) from Eastern Province and was listed by Martin (1972).

World distribution.

Asia: AE, IN, PAL, JO, and SA; Europe: SP; North Africa: AG, EG, LB, MO, and TU ( Kovář 2007).