Serangium buettikeri Fuersch , 2000

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

Serangium buettikeri Fuersch, 2000

Serangium buettikeri Fürsch, 2000 (18): 233.

Remark.

This species has been recorded only in the Arabian Peninsula and is a predator of the citrus blackfly Aleurocanthus woglumi Ashby, 1915 ( Raimundo and van Harten 2000). Individuals were collected from Ricinus communis L. using sweep nets.

Materials examined.

Asir: Wadi Khat, 19°05.37'N, 41°58.37'E, 13.III.2012, BS, Al Dhafer et al., 2exs; Baha: Thee Ain, 19°55.78'N, 41°26.60'E, 741 m, 10.III.2012, BS, Al Dhafer et al., 1ex; 11.IV.2016, BS, Al Ansi et al., 1ex; Najran: Rijla, Wadi Najran 17°31.56'N, 44°13.65'E, 1257 m, 15.I.2013, BS, Al Ansi, A., 4♂2♀90exs, on R. communis L.; 15.I.2013, SN, Al Ansi, A., 1ex, on R. communis L.; Wadi Shuaib Barran 17°28.94'N, 44°05.52'E, 1325 m, 16.I.2013, BS, Al Ansi, A., 1ex.

Local distribution.

Specimens of this species were reported from Asir, Baha, and Najran provinces and previously reported by Raimundo and van Harten (2000) from Asir.

World distribution.

Asia: SA and YE ( Kovář 2007).