Ochthebius (Ochthebius) mahmoodi Jach & Delgado 2014

Ochthebius (Ochthebius) mahmoodi Jäch & Delgado 2014 Published records. JÄCH & DELGADO (2014). Material examined. Loc.8: 2 ♁♁; Loc. 12: 19 spec. (1 ♁ used for DNA extraction, voucher No. IBE-RA126, sequences published in ABELLÁN et al. 2013 as Ochthebius nr. difficilis; VILLASTRIGO et al. 2019). Notes. Ochthebius mahmoodi was described based on specimens from the UAE and Oman, which in part had been misidentified as O. monseti Jäch & Delgado, 2010, as both species were said to be indistinguishable based on external morphology (JÄCH & DELGADO 2014). However, based on molecular data of specimens of both species from Oman they are not even sisters, being O. monseti sister to the Iberian O. montesi Ferro, 1984, and O. mahmoodi sister to O. micans Balfour-Browne, 1951 (specimen from Djibouti), all at considerable genetic distance (VILLASTRIGO et al. 2019).Published as part of Ribera, Ignacio, Hernando, Carles & Cieslak, Alexandra, 2019, Aquatic Coleoptera of North Oman, with description of new species of Hydraenidae and Hydrophilidae, pp. 253-272 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 59 (1) on page 263, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2019-0021, http://zenodo.org/record/448895