Calosoma olivieri Dejean, 1831

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Elgharbawy, Ali A., Rasool, Iftekhar, Nagel, Peter & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2019, The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Shada Al-A'Ala Nature Reserve, Southwestern Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of Paussinae, ZooKeys 812, pp. 93-131 : 98

Calosoma olivieri Dejean, 1831

Material examined.

892 m: 15.II.2014, LT, ♀; 23.IV.2014, LT, 1♂; 13.XI.2015, LT, 1♂; 14.XI.2015, LT, 1♂, 1♀. 1,225 m: 15.II.2014, PT, 1♀. 1,325 m: 15.II.2014, LT, 1♂, 3♀; 15.II.2014, PT, 1♀; 15.XI.2015, LT, 2♀. 1,474 m: 15.II.2014, LT, 1♂. 1,611 m: 15.II.2014, LT, 3♂, 6♀.

General distribution and zoogeography.

AF, DZ, EG, IQ, IR, IT, JO, LY, MA, PK, SA, SY, TD, TM, TN, UZ, YE. PAL_SAR species.

Published records.

Makkah (Britton 1948, Mateu 1990); Riyadh (Heinertz 1979; Abdel–Dayem et al. 2017). New provincial records for Baha.

Remarks.

A frequent species that was collected during autumn, winter, and spring. The species was collected by light trapping and hand picking in Acacia thorn woodlands and Barbary fig shrub community. Ali Elgharbawy identified this species.