Pharoscymnus ovoideus Sicard, 1929

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1006.59123

publication LSID

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scientific name

Pharoscymnus ovoideus Sicard, 1929
status

 

Pharoscymnus ovoideus Sicard, 1929

Pharoscymnus ovoideus Sicard, 1929: 61.

Remark.

This species is a predator of scale insects ( Martin 1972; Montaigne and Maouloud 1981; Abu-Thuraya 1982).

Materials examined.

Riyadh: Riyadh, 20.VI.1981, Talhouk et al., ANMA, 3exs, det. Fürsch 1967, 1968; Al Hariq Ar Rayn Rd., 23°33.88'N, 46°22.53'E, 737 m, 8.V.2012, LT, Al Ansi, A., 1ex.

Local distribution.

It has been recorded in Riyadh and was previously reported by Abu-Thuraya (1982) and listed by Martin (1972).

World distribution.

Asia: IN, JO, and SY; North Africa: AG, MO, and TU; AFR ( Kovář 2007), SA ( Abu-Thuraya 1982); AE ( Raimundo et al. 2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Pharoscymnus

Loc

Pharoscymnus ovoideus Sicard, 1929

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al 2020
2020
Loc

Pharoscymnus ovoideus

Sicard 1929
1929