Chlaenius laeviplaga saudiarabica Mandl, 1980

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Elgharbawy, Ali A., Rasool, Iftekhar, Nagel, Peter & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2019, The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Shada Al-A'Ala Nature Reserve, Southwestern Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of Paussinae, ZooKeys 812, pp. 93-131 : 100-101

Chlaenius laeviplaga saudiarabica Mandl, 1980

Material examined.

471 m: 10.XII.2014, HP, 9♂, 5♀. 892 m: 10.XII.2014, LT, 1♂, 1♀.

General distribution and zoogeography.

AE, SA. END_AR species.

Published records.

Asir (Mandl 1980; Abdel-Dayem et al. 2018). New record for Baha Province.

Remarks.

A frequent species that was collected during autumn. The adults were found under stones along the margins of a freshwater stream and collected by hand. Additional adults collected at night by using lights. Erich Kirschenhofer identified this subspecies.