The genera Cneocnemis Gebien and Cenoscelis Wollaston in Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Ulomini) |
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| Authors: | Wolfgang Schawaller Ashraf M El Torkey Hathal M Al Dhafer |
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| Institution: | 1. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germanywolfgang.schawaller@smns-bw.de;3. College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;4. Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt |
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| Abstract: | Cneocnemis arabica sp. n. is described from western Saudi Arabia. The type locality lies disjunct from the large conjunct area of the Asian congeners, probably due to the lack of suitable habitats (?trees) in central and eastern Arabia. C. angustula (Fairmaire, 1893 Fairmaire, L. (1893): Contributions à la faune Indo-Chinoise. Coléoptères Hétéromères. Annales de la Société entomologique de France, 62, 19–38. Google Scholar]) comb. n. from Indochina is transferred from Uloma to Cneocnemis. Additionally, the first records of Cenoscelis pulla (Erichson, 1843) from Saudi Arabia are listed. The species of Cenoscelis seem at least not to be restricted to arboreal habitats. |
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| Keywords: | Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Ulomini Cneocnemis Cenoscelis Saudi Arabia new species new combination taxonomy zoogeography |
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