Idactus bettoni, an interesting African faunistic element extending in the north of its distribution range to the Arabian Peninsula, has been described from Samburu disctrict (Kenya) by Charles Joseph Gahan in 1898 [✧].

Body length:	9 – 14 mm
Life cycle:	1 year [?]
Adults in:	depends on region
Host plant:	polyphagous in broadleaf trees and shrubs
Distribution:	Saudi Arabia, Africa (Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Kenya, Namibia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Depicted mounted beetle was collected 6 km NE of Al Ghina (الغيناء) village (N18°3′21.4″ E42°28′22.9″; 820 m a.s.l., Aseer/Asir province, Saudi Arabia) on March 9–10, 2024.

Collected by our friend Milan Šárovec

[✧]
Gahan Ch.J.:
Descriptions of new Longicorn Coleoptera from East Africa.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2 ser.) 7 (7): 40-59, 1898. [download ]

Holzschuh C. and Teocchi P.:
Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Saudi Arabia: Part I, Lamiinae.
Fauna of Saudi Arabia 12 [1991]: 295-311, 1992. [download ]