Rhopalosilpha wasmanni Arrow, 1929

Hava, Jiri, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2023, The subfamily Dermestinae (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1138, pp. 161-173 : 161

Rhopalosilpha wasmanni Arrow, 1929

Fig. 3D

Record.

Saudi Arabia • Eastern Province, Hofuf ( Mroczkowski and Ślipiński 1997).

Note.

Rhopalosilpha wasmanni is only known from a single specimen in the NHMB collection. It was collected from Hofuf in eastern Saudi Arabia by W. Büttiker ( Mroczkowski and Ślipiński 1997) (Fig. 4D ).

Distribution.

This very rare species is known only from Iran, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia ( Háva 2015, 2022).

Figures

Figure 3. A, B Dermestes undulatus Brahm, 1790 (photographs by A. Herrmann) A dorsal habitus B Abdominal ventrites C Mariouta stangei Reitter, 1910 (photographs by K. Matsumoto) D Rhopalosilpha wasmanni Arrow, 1929 (photographs by J. Hava).

Figure 4. Distribution map of the Dermestinae species in Saudi Arabia A Dermestes ater, D. haemorrhoidalis, and D. undulatus B D. frischii C D. maculatus D D. lardarius, Mariouta stangei, and Rhopalosilpha wasmanni.