Microlestes infuscatus fragilis Mateu, 1956

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 : 353-354

Microlestes infuscatus fragilis Mateu, 1956

Material examined. GRNR: 1897 m: 26.IV.2014 , LT, 1 ♂ . 2285 m: 08. VI.2014 , PT, 2 ♀.

Distribution. The species is a SAR and apparently confined to southern and southeastern Asia (AF, SA, YE).

Life forms and Remarks. ZS(C)LC species. Mateu (1979) reported this species at an altitude of 2000 m (Asir Province, Qaraah) at a locality 35 km southeast of GRNR. Also, this subspecies was recently reported from Asir, Baha and Jizan ( Rasool et al. 2018b). The adults were collected from the Opuntia ficus-indica community at altitudes 1897 m and from the Olea europaea community at 2285 m.