Clitostethus arcuatus (Rossi, 1794)*

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

Clitostethus arcuatus (Rossi, 1794)* Figure 4

Coccinella arcuata Rossi, 1794: 88.

Remark.

This species is reported as a predator on the whitefly Siphoninus phillyreae (Haliday, 1835) ( Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae ) in Iran (Tavadjoh et al. 2010).

Diagnosis.

Body is dark brown to black, covered with rather long, whitish hairs; head is black; pronotum is whitish, at its middle with several black spots; elytra black or brown, with two arched concentric horseshoe-shaped lines, crossing the suture with their posterior part.

Materials examined.

Asir: Ahd Rifidh, 18°06.33'N, 42°53.82'E, 16.I.2013, BS, Al Ansi, A., 1ex.

Local distribution.

This is a newly recorded genus from Saudi Arabia; it was collected from Asir province.

World distribution.

Asia: IN, IQ, SY, and TR; Europe: AL, AR, AU, AZ, BH, CR, CZ, FR, GB, GE, GG, GR, HU, IT, NL, RO, SK, ST, SZ, UK, and YU; North Africa: CI, and MR; AFR and NAR ( Kovář 2007); new record for SA.

Figures

Figure 4. Dorsal view of Clitostethus arcuatus. Scale bar: 1 mm.