Nephus (Sidis) levaillanti (Mulsant, 1850)

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 (Sidis) levaillanti (Mulsant, 1850)

Scymnus levaillanti Mulsant, 1850: 964.

Remark.

The specimens were collected by PT on the branches of Acacia gerrardii and under the shrub Z. nummularia . Some specimens were also collected under the canopies of Acacia ehrenbergiana during April and July. This species is a predator on Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877 ( Fürsch 1970) and A. Aonidiella orientalis ( Abu-Thuraya 1982).

Materials examined.

Riyadh: Rawdhet Khoraim, 25°22.98'N, 47°16.71'E, 559 m, 28.IV.2012, PT, 1♀, under A. Acacia ehrenbergiana ; 28.IV.2012, PT, 1♂, under A. Acacia gerrardii ; 1.VII.2012, BS, 1♀, on A. Acacia gerrardii ; 14.IV.2012, BS, 1ex, on Z. nummularia .

Local distribution.

Specimens were collected from Riyadh ( Abdel-Dayem et al. 2017) and also previously was reported from Riyadh and Eastern provinces by Abu-Thuraya (1982) and listed by Martin (1972).

World distribution.

Asia: SA ( Raimundo and van Harten 2000); AF, FE, IN, PAL, JA, JO, LE, PA, SHA, and TAI; Europe: GR and IT; North Africa: EG; AFR and ORR ( Kovář 2007).