Adephagous water beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae) of Yemen and Dhofar region (Oman) with description of a new Hyphydrus from Socotra Island Author Hájek, Jiří Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic; e-mail: jiri _ hajek @ nm. cz Author Reiter, Antonín South Moravian Museum in Znojmo, Přemyslovců 8, CZ- 669 45 Znojmo, Czech Republic; e-mail: reiter @ znojmuz. cz text Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2014 2014-12-30 54 63 99 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5314766 0374-1036 5314766 2111ED80-A550-4F9A-ADBF-8D663E692ADC Herophydrus guineensis (Aubé, 1838) Published records. WATERHOUSE (1881: 470) : Socotra (as Hyphidrus guineensis ); data repeated by TASCHENBERG (1883: 177) and GAHAN (1903: 265) . Material examined. YEMEN : SOCOTRA ISLAND: 1 spec. , Dixam plateau, wadi Zerig, pools, Juncus marsh, 12°29.6ʹN , 53°59.5ʹE , 655 m , 13.–14.vi.2012 , J. Bezděk, J. Hájek, V. Hula, P. Kment, I. Malenovský, J. Niedobová & L. Purchart leg. ( NMPC ). Habitat. The single specimen recently collected in Socotra came from a large pool surrounded with Juncus socotranus marsh in a wadi ( Fig. 14 ). Distribution. Widely distributed species known from most of African territory except for Sahara, reaching also Mediterranean area and the Arabian Peninsula (cf. BISTRÖM & NILSSON 2002 ).