Nephus (Bipunctatus) ornatulus Korschefsky, 1931*

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al, 2020, An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) with eight new records from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1006, pp. 35-89 : 35

Nephus (Bipunctatus) ornatulus Korschefsky, 1931* Figure 6

Nephus (Bipunctatus) ornatulus Korscefsky, 1931: 152.

Diagnosis.

Body is elongate oval, covered with whitish pubescence; elytra are generally black, each with two yellowish spots: the anterior one is small or inconspicuous, sometimes invisible, located on the disc, and the posterior one is subapical, large, circular, or transverse.

Materials examined.

Asir: Wadi bin Hashbal, 18°35.44'N, 42°39.01'E, 1892 m, 26.IV.2011, SN, Al Ansi et al., 1♀; Al Magardah Wadi Yabah, 19°16.27'N, 41°48.46'E, 411, 2.VI.2012, BS, Al Ansi, A., 1♂.

Local distribution.

Members of this species were collected from Asir; it was not previously known in Saudi Arabia.

World distribution.

Asia: YE, new country record for Saudi Arabia; Africa: Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and Senegal ( Raimundo et al. 2006).

Figures

Figure 6. Dorsal view of Nephus ornatulus. Scale bar: 1 mm.