Distribution:
Cyrenaica, new sub-species. 4 paratypes in
coll. JCR..
15
km SE of Al Baida, 19/04/2003; Al Qubbah, 29/08/2002.
Scattered
in Al Jabal al Ackdar. Pictures of the live
specimens from an artificial pine tree forest
15 km SSE of Al Baida where it cohabits with
Calathus sp, Blaps dodorei
and Akis costitubera; and from the
famous Hawa Fteah cave (along the coast of Cyrenaica,
near Susah) where 80,000 years of human presence
have been recorded (Bottom).
JCR
25/12/2003