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Issue: Vol. 4311 No. 1: 22 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.1.2
Page range: 23–38
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First record of the family Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) for the fauna of Saudi Arabia, with the description of a new species

King Saud University, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, P.O. Box 11884, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
King Saud University, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Hymenoptera Stephanidae new records a new species Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The family Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) is recorded for the first time from Saudi Arabia. It is represented by two species belonging to the genus Foenatopus, F. bisignatus Aguiar & Jennings, 2010 and F. cf. turcomanorum (Semenov, 1891). A new species, Profoenatopus bimaculatus sp. nov. from Asir region is also described and illustrated.

 

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