Atheta atramentaria (Gyllenhal, 1810)

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Fad, Hassan H., El-Torkey, Ashraf M., Elgharbawy, Ali A., Aldryhim, Yousif N., Kondratieff, Boris C., Ansi, Amin N. Al & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2017, The beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Rawdhat Khorim National Park, Central Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 653, pp. 1-78 : 18

Atheta atramentaria (Gyllenhal, 1810)

World distribution.

Africa: MR, ZA. Asia: AZ, CN, CY, IN, IR, JP, KP, KZ, NP, PK, RU, TR. Europe: AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FO, FR, GB, GE, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, NL, NO, PL, PT, RU, SE, SK. North Africa: DZ, EG, ES (Canary Islands), MA, PT (Madeira Archipelago), TN. New to Arabian Peninsula.

General distribution.

AFR_PAL_ORR_SAR_SJP.

Collecting month and method.

Rare species. The specimens of this species were collected by PT under canopies of Acacia ehrenbergiana , Acacia gerrardii , Lycium shawii , Rhazya stricta , and Ziziphus nummularia in I-II and X-XI; and by SW on branches of Calotropis procera through VII.