Nephus (Sidis) hiekei ( Fuersch , 1965)

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) hiekei ( Fuersch, 1965)

Scymnus hiekei Fürsch, 1965: 201.

Remark.

This species is known as a predator of the mealybug Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813 ( Fürsch 1970, Abu-Thuraya 1982, Raimundo and van Harten 2000).

Materials examined.

Riyadh: Ad Diriyah, 24°40'N, 46°35'E, 17.XI.2011, SN, Al Omar, A., 1ex; 15.IX.2011, SN, Al Omar, A., 1ex; Al Ammariah, 24°49'N, 46°26'E, 24.XI.2009, SN, Sharaf, M., 1ex.

Local distribution.

It is restricted to Riyadh province and previously reported from Riyadh by Fürsch (1979) and Abu-Thuraya (1982) and listed by Martin (1972) and Talhouk (1982). In this study, it was collected from Riyadh.

World distribution.

Asia: AE, IN, IQ, PAL, LE, SA, and TR; Europe: IT, GR, and SP; North Africa: AG, EG, MO, and TU ( Kovář 2007).