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Abdel-Dayem MS, Fad HH, El-Torkey AM, et al. The beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Rawdhat Khorim National Park, Central Saudi Arabia. Zookeys. 2017;(653):1-78doi: 10.3897/zookeys.653.10252.
Abdel-Dayem, M. S., Fad, H. H., El-Torkey, A. M., Elgharbawy, A. A., Aldryhim, Y. N., Kondratieff, B. C., Ansi, A. N., & Aldhafer, H. M. (2017). The beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Rawdhat Khorim National Park, Central Saudi Arabia. ZooKeys, (653), 1-78. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.653.10252
Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S, et al. "The beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Rawdhat Khorim National Park, Central Saudi Arabia." ZooKeys vol. ,653 (2017): 1-78. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.653.10252
Abdel-Dayem MS, Fad HH, El-Torkey AM, Elgharbawy AA, Aldryhim YN, Kondratieff BC, Ansi AN, Aldhafer HM. The beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Rawdhat Khorim National Park, Central Saudi Arabia. Zookeys. 2017 Feb 07;(653):1-78. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.653.10252. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28331393; PMCID: PMC5345375.
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Zookeys. 2017 Feb 07;(653):1-78. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.653.10252. eCollection 2017.

The beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Rawdhat Khorim National Park, Central Saudi Arabia.

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Mahmoud S Abdel-Dayem, Hassan H Fad, Ashraf M El-Torkey, Ali A Elgharbawy, Yousif N Aldryhim, Boris C Kondratieff, Amin N Al Ansi, Hathal M Aldhafer

Affiliations

  1. King Saud University Museum of Arthropods (KSMA), Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460 Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
  2. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
  3. Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt.
  4. King Saud University Museum of Arthropods (KSMA), Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460 Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia; Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Al Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
  5. Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Campus Delivery 1177, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. 80523.

PMID: 28331393 PMCID: PMC5345375 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.653.10252

Abstract

This study was conducted as a part of a comprehensive baseline survey of insect biodiversity of Rawdhat Khorim National Park (RKNP), Central Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). During this study a total of 262 Coleoptera species belong to 182 genera in 35 families were identified, of which 247 are named at a species level. Fifteen species (6.0%) are apparently endemic to KSA. Thirty-eight species are new to the known beetle fauna of KSA, including 25 species reported from the Arabian Peninsula for the first time. The families Tenebrionidae (45 species), Scarabaeidae (34 species), and Carabidae (27 species) were the most species rich families. About 37% of the beetle abundance was represented by species of Scarabaeidae, especially

Keywords: Arabian fauna; distribution; endemic species; new records; zoogeography

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