The arthropods of Qatar consist of many organisms including insects and arachnids, as well as myriapods and crustaceans recorded from Qatar.

Class Insecta

Coleoptera

Anobiidae Lasidoerma serricorne

Buprestidae Chrysobothris parvipunctata (Obenberger, 1914) Julodis euphratica (Laporte & Gory, 1835) Psiloptera mimosae

Carabidae Anthia duodecimguttata Calosoma chlorostictum Calosoma imbricatum Cicindela melancholica

Cerambycidae Apomecyna lameerei

Cleridae Necrobia rufipes

Coccinellidae Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius, 1781) Coccinella septempunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) Coccinella undecimpunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) Hyperaspis vinciguerrae (Capra, 1929) Scymnus nubilus (Mulsant, 1850)

Dytiscidae Eretes sticiticus

Geotrupidae Pseudoathyerus orientalis (Laporte, 1840)

Glaresidae Glaresis arabica (Paulian, 1980)

Hybosoridae Brenskea coronata Reitter, 1891 Hybosorus roei Westwood, 1845

Scarabaeidae Labarrus lividus (Olivier, 1789) Maladera insanabilis (Brenske, 1894) Oryctes agamemnon (Burmeister, 1847) Oryctes elegans (Prell, 1914) Pentodon algerinus dispar (Fuessly, 1788) Pentodon bispinosus Phylloganthus cristatus Scarabaeus bannuensis (Janssens, 1940) Scarabaeus sacer Stalagmopygus albella

Silvanidae Oryzaephilus surinamensis

Tenebrionidae Gonocephalum rusticum Gonocephalum setulosum Mesostena angustata Mesostena elegans Ocnera hispida Ocnera philistina Opatroides punctulatus Tribolium confusum

Trogidae Afromorgus gemmatus (A.G. Olivier, 1789)

Diptera

Calliphoridae Calliphora vicina (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819) Chrysomya marginalis (Wiedemann, 1830) Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826)

Muscidae Coenosia attenuata (Stein, 1903) Coenosia tigrina (Fabricius, 1775) Musca albina (Wiedemann, 1830) Musca domestica (Linnaeus, 1758) Musca sorbens (Wiedemann, 1830) Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tabanidae Tabanus sufis (Jaennicke, 1867)

Lepidoptera List of Lepidoptera of Qatar

Zygentoma

Lepismatidae

Lepisma saccharina (Linnaeus, 1758) Thermobia aegyptiaca (Lucas, 1840) Thermobia domestica (Packard, 1873)

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