Mariouta stangei Reitter, 1910

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

Mariouta stangei Reitter, 1910

Fig. 3C

Record.

Saudi Arabia • Eastern Province, Al-Ahsa, Salwah, 248 km S (Rub al Khali) ( Mroczkowski and Ślipiński 1997).

Note.

This species is only known from a single specimen preserved in the NHMB collection. This specimen was collected by W. Büttiker in May 1985 at a location in the Empty Quarter (Rub al Khali), 248 km south of the town of Salwa in southeastern Saudi Arabia, located near the border with Qatar (Fig. 4D ).

Distribution.

This taxon is known from the Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Turkmenistan ( 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.