Calosoma imbricatum Klug, 1832

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Elgharbawy, Ali A., Rasool, Iftekhar, Nagel, Peter & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2019, The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Shada Al-A'Ala Nature Reserve, Southwestern Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of Paussinae, ZooKeys 812, pp. 93-131 : 98

Calosoma imbricatum Klug, 1832

Material examined.

892 m: 26.I.2015, LT, 1♀; 14.II.2014, LT, 2♂, 1♀; 15.II.2014, LT, 1♀; 12.XI.2015, LT, 1♂; 14.XI.2015, LT, 1♂. 1,225 m: 12.XI.2015, LT, 1♀. 1,325 m: 15.XI.2015, 1♀. 1,448 m: 03.XI.2013, LT, 1♀; 03.XI.2013, HP, 1♂. 1,474 m: 02.III.2015, LT, 1♀. 1,611 m: 15.II.2014, LT, 1♀; 21.IV.2014, LT, 1♀.

General distribution and zoogeography.

AE, BF, CV, DJ, DZ, EG, ER, ET, IQ, IR, KE, KW, LB, LY, ML, NE, OM, PK, QA, SA, SD, SN, SO, TD, YE. AFR_SAR species.

Published records.

Asir ( Abdel-Dayem et al. 2018), Baha ( El-Hawagry et al. 2013), Eastern Province (Heinertz 1979), Jizan and Makkah (Britton 1948), Riyadh (Heinertz 1979; Abdel-Dayem et al. 2017).

Remarks.

A rare species, which was collected during autumn, winter, and spring. The adults were collected by light trapping and hand picking in Acacia thorn woodlands and Barbary fig shrub community. Ali Elgharbawy identified this species.