Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011

Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Gadallah, Neveen S., Gasib, Abdulmajeed M., Al-Fifi, Zarrag I. A. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2023, Further addition to the crabronid fauna of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Spheciformes): Crabronidae), with new genera and species records, and the description of two new species, Zootaxa 5319 (2), pp. 151-177 : 172-175

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.2.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8182363

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011
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Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011 View in CoL View at ENA

Fig. 16A–G View FIGURE 16

Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011: 610 View in CoL , ♀, ♁.

Diagnosis. Body (including antennae and legs) entirely black ( Fig. 16A View FIGURE 16 ); frontal shield in female and male relatively long, pointed, a short distance above antennal bases, rounded basally and angulate apico-laterally, coarsely rugose in female ( Fig. 16B View FIGURE 16 ), densely punctate in male ( Fig. 16C View FIGURE 16 ), with an area of silvery pubescence extending from middle ocellus but not reaching ventral end of shield ( Fig. 16B, C View FIGURE 16 ); last antennal segment in male relatively long, narrowly rounded apically, about as long as preceding three antennal segments or slightly shorter ( Fig. 16G View FIGURE 16 ); scutum with dense superficial punctures ( Fig. 16D View FIGURE 16 ), mesopleuron densely punctate, with interspaces ( Fig. 16E View FIGURE 16 ); metapleuron finely transversely striate ( Fig. 16E View FIGURE 16 ); dorsal enclosure of propodeum coarsely rugose, with dense, upturned fine pale setae posteriorly ( Fig. 16D View FIGURE 16 ); first gastral segment distinctly long in both sexes ( Fig. 16F View FIGURE 16 ); S 8 of male completely as in Antropov (2011: 615, fig. 10).

Material examined: 2♀, 1♁, Farasan, Abdulmajeed farm [16 Q 42.07970’N; 42 Q 08.5781’E], 23–30.ix.2022; 1♀, Farasan (Abdulmajeed Farm), 30.ix–7x.2022.

Previous Saudi Arabian records: Maha’il ( Antropov 2011), Jazan ( Gadallah et al. 2021).

Distribution: Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

Comments. Characters of this species fully agree with Antropov’s key (2001: 616, couplet 3), as well as his diagnosis (2011: 610).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Crabronidae

Genus

Trypoxylon

Loc

Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011

Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Gadallah, Neveen S., Gasib, Abdulmajeed M., Al-Fifi, Zarrag I. A. & Edmardash, Yusuf A. 2023
2023
Loc

Trypoxylon splendidum

Antropov, A. V. 2011: 610
2011
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