Merizomena buettikeri ( Mateu, 1986 )

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Rasool, Iftekhar, Elgharbawy, Ali A., Nagel, Peter & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2018, Faunistic inventory and zoogeographical analysis of the ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Garf Raydah Nature Reserve, Southwestern of Saudi Arabia, and description of a new species of Paussinae, Zootaxa 4514 (3), pp. 341-371 : 352

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8F3F3680-5950-4FAB-B8DC-455FAC27535A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3798986
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03811B61-FF82-FF85-A5BC-FEF8FBFDF90B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Merizomena buettikeri ( Mateu, 1986 )
status

Treatment

Merizomena buettikeri ( Mateu, 1986) View in CoL

Material examined. WMR: 1150 m: 04.IV.2017, LT, 2 exs. GRNR : 1614 m: 24.III.2014, LT, 1 ♂; 23.VIII.2014, LT, 1 ♀ . 1851 m: 26.IV.2014, ( LT), 1 ♂ .

Distribution. A END_ SA species.

Life forms and Remarks. ZPLD species. This species was described as Glycia ( Merizomena) buettikeri based on two male specimens collected by W. Büttiker from Madinah and Najran provinces in 1979 and 1980, respectively. Additional records have been reported from Riyadh Province ( Abdel-Dayem et al. 2017). This is the first record from Asir Province for the species, and the adult specimens were collected from Opuntia ficus-indica communities of GRNR and from Acacia communities at the bottom of GRNR.