The Sultanate of Oman is located in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula.
Arabian Peninsula, including Oman, sits as a semi-isolated block between Eurasia and Africa that overlaps three of the world’s key zoogeographical regions; the Afrotropical (Ethiopian), the Oriental and the Palearctic.
It is the only area where three such regions intersect.
The inland part of Oman belongs to the Palearctic region.
The southern parts of Oman and the northern mountain range belong to the Afrotropical region, this is a relatively narrow strip along the coast.
A large stretch of barren desert, acting as a zoogeographical barrier, lies between them.
Boundaries among zoogeographical realms in the Arabian Peninsula is continuously a trending controversial topic.
Most of the Cerambycidae species found in the Sultanate of Oman live in the Afrotropical region of the Dhofar province.
We did not record species strictly occurring only in the Palearctic region.
List of detected species
Anthracocentrus arabicus (Thomson, 1877)
Cantharocnemis (Cantharocnemis) spondyloides Audinet-Serville, 1832
Derolus iranensis Pic, 1956 ssp. arabicus Sama, 2008
Derolus thesigeri Villiers, 1968
Neoplocaederus denticornis (Fabricius, 1801)
Xenoderolus arabicus (Villiers, 1968)
Zoodes compressus (Fabricius, 1787)
Stromatium barbatum (Fabricius, 1775)
Pelossus longicornis (Pic, 1895)
Mourgliana (Pseudomourgliana) mollina Holzschuh, 2006
Iranobrium brancuccii Holzschuh, 1993
Iranobrium grande Holzschuh, 2015
(an endemic species of Oman)Hologaster kabateki Adlbauer, 2007
Kabatekiella dalihodi Holzschuh, 2008
Noserius indicus (Gahan, 1906)
Yementallyrama nasheri Adlbauer, 2007
Jordanoleiopus (Polymitoleiopus) annae Lazarev & Skrylnyk, 2023
Idactus coquereli (Fairmaire, 1890)
Idactus cristulatus (Fairmaire, 1886)
Apomecyna lameerei (Pic, 1895)
Enaretta samai Rapuzzi, 2024 [previously ID: Enaretta caudata Fahraeus, 1873]
Titoceres arabicus (Breuning, 1962)
Crossotus arabicus Gahan, 1896
Crossotus strigifrons (Fairmaire, 1886)
Crossotus subocellatus (Fairmaire, 1886)
Crossotus sp. nov. [det. Adlbauer 2016]
(an endemic species of Oman)Batocera rufomaculata (DeGeer, 1775)
Eunidia breuningae Villiers, 1951
Eunidia haplotrita Aurivillius, 1911Eunidia kristenseni Aurivillius, 1911
Eunidia nebulosa Erichson, 1843
Coptops aedificator (Fabricius, 1793)
Niphona (Niphona) indica Breuning, 1938
List of species or reported in the literature
Daramus (Daramus) serricornis Fairmaire, 1892
Jebusaea hammerschmidtii Reiche, 1877
[Titoceres jaspideus (Audinet-Serville, 1835) ???!]
