Dromius buettikeri Mateu, 1990

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 : 105

Dromius buettikeri Mateu, 1990

Material examined.

825 m: 13.XI.2015, LT, 1♀; 15.XI.2015, LT, 1♂. 851 m: 15.XI.2015, LT, 1♀. 892 m: 12.XI.2015, LT, 1♂, 1♀. 1,325 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 1♀; 14.XI.2015, LT, 1♂, 2♀; 15.XI.2015, LT, 1♀. 1,474 m: 27.I.2014, LT, 1♀; 15.II.2014, LT, 1♂, 1♀; 14.XI.2015, LT, 1♂; 08.XII.2014, LT, 1♂. 1,563 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 1♂. 1,611 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 1♀. 1,666 m: 27.I.2015, LT, 1♀.

General distribution and zoogeography.

SA. END_SA species.

Published records.

Asir and Baha ( Rasool et al. 2018b), Riyadh ( Mateu 1990).

Remarks.

A frequent species. The adults were collected during autumn and winter from Acacia thorn woodlands and Barbary fig communities. The specimens were attracted only to light trap. Ron Felix identified this species.