Philanthus genalis Kohl, 1891

Figs 7A, B, 8A–E

Philanthus genalis Kohl, 1891: 349, ♀, ♁.

Diagnosis. Body length: 11−12 mm (female); 9.0− 12 mm (male).

Body predominantly yellow with some areas black (Figs 7A, B, 8A–E); yellow face area in female ending far from middle ocellus, while in male it extends to middle ocellus; head with long fine silvery setae extending to level of middle ocellus in frontal view (Fig. 8A, B); malar space relatively long, about 2/3 length of F 1 in male (Fig. 8D) and half length of F 1 in female (Fig. 8C); clypeal moustache of male meeting medially (Fig. 8B); pronotum straight anteriorly (Fig. 7A, B); propodeal enclosure smooth and shiny, with smooth median sulcus (Fig. 7A, B); upper mesopleuron nearly smooth and shiny, lower mesopleuron with microscopic superficial punctures (Fig. 8C, D).

Material examined: 1♁, 1♀, Wadi Degla, 4.iv.1928 (AUCE) ; 1♁, Suez Road, 15.ix.1929 (AUCE) ; 1♁, Fayoum, 8.iii.1935 (AUCE) ; 1♁, 1♀, Marsa Matruh, viii.1953, Dr. T. S. collector (ASUA) ; 1♁, Kom Oshiem, 4.iv.1953, Aly collector (ASUA) ; 1♁, Wadi El Natroun, 2.iv.1951, Roh. collector (ASUA) .

Previous Egyptian Records: Tor (S. Sinai) (Kohl 1891), Fayoum (El Khawagat), Kerdasa, Hammamat Faraoun (S. Sinai), Wadi Degla (Mochi 1939; Honoré 1942; Roche 2007), Sinai Peninsula (Roche & Zalat 1994), Dakhla Oasis, Kom Oshiem, Wadi El Natroun (Gadallah 1996), Dahshour, Wadi El Tih (Dollfuss 2017).

Extralimital distribution: Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Sudan, United Arab Emirates.

Remarks. Characters of Egyptian specimens agree well with Guichard’s key (1994: 208, couplet 4). They also agree with de Beaumont’s description (1961: 202) as well as couplet 4 (de Beaumont 1961: 211), but differ in the malar space length: in our specimens the male malar space equals 2/3 the length of F1, and about half length of F 1 in female (in male, equal to F1, and in female 2/3 length of F 1 in de Beaumont’s key). Our specimens agree also with de Beaumont’s figs 4, 5 (1961: 207).