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Issue: Vol. 5403 No. 5: 24 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5403.5.3
Page range: 549-570
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New additions to the crabronid fauna of the Arabian Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Spheciformes): Crabronidae), new distribution records and new species

Entomology Department; Faculty of Science; Cairo University; Giza; Egypt
Entomology Department; Faculty of Science; Cairo University; Giza; Egypt; Plant Protection Department; Desert Research Center; Cairo; Egypt
Department of Biology; College of Science; Jazan University; P.O. Box 114; Jazan 45142; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Plant Protection Department; Desert Research Center; Cairo; Egypt
Department of Biology; College of Science; Jazan University; P.O. Box 114; Jazan 45142; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Hymenoptera Bembecinae Crabroninae Pemphredoninae new records new species Jazan Coffea arabica

Abstract

The present study is based on specimens collected in coffee orchards on the mountains in the Jazan Province (southwestern Saudi Arabia) using Malaise traps. The genera Carinostigmus Tsuneki, 1954, and Polemistus de Saussure, 1892 are first recorded for the Arabian Peninsula, each with a single species. Three new species: Bembecinus similis Gadallah & Edmardash, Crossocerus arabicus Gadallah & Edmardash, and Oxybelus coffeae Edmardash & Gadallah are described and illustrated. The previously unknown female of Nysson ohli (Schmid-Egger 2011) (UAE) is discovered, described and illustrated.

 

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