Acinopus arabicus Wrase & Kataev, 2016

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 : 348

Acinopus arabicus Wrase & Kataev, 2016

Material examined. GRNR: 1614 m: 25.IV.2014, HP, 1 ♂ . MKV: 2717 m: 25.IV.2014, LT, 2 ♀ .

Distribution. END_SA species.

Life forms and Remarks. MGZT species. This species was recently described from Al Soudah (Asir Province) at an altitude range of 2800–3050 m . Al Soudah is located 3 km north of the GRNR, where the dominant plant vegetation is African pencil cedar. In GRNR, the adults were collected from the Opuntia ficus-indica community at lower altitude (1614 m) of the nature reserve and in the African pencil cedar forest at higher altitude in the north of the reserve (2717 m) .