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.