Dolichurus arabicus Ohl, 2011

Gadallah, Neveen S., 2017, Revision of the digger wasps of the Ampulicidae and Heterogynaidae (Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia, with the description of a new species of the enigmatic genus Heterogyna Nagy, Journal of Natural History 51 (33 - 34), pp. 2057-2085 : 2064-2066

Dolichurus arabicus Ohl, 2011

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Dolichurus arabicus Ohl, 2011: 478 , ♂, ♀. Holotype ♂, United Arab Emirates: al-Ajban, ( ZMB) . Paratypes: Oman .

Diagnosis

Male 4.5–6.0 mm, female longer than male (6.2–8.9 mm). Body almost black (apical half of T3 and T4–6 red in female), most of the mandible, anterior margin of the frontal platform (male, Figure 4 (a,b)) and anterior clypeal margin (female) orange-yellow; pronotal tubercles (male) white ( Figure 4 (c)); antenna and tarsi of male pale brown, the former darker apically ( Figure 4 (a)), dark brown in female. Vertex and frons densely punctate (punctures generally less than one diameter apart) in male ( Figure 4 (b)); lower mesopleuron irregularly sparsely punctate, with interspaces shiny in female; frons (female) densely punctato-rugose throughout and T1–3 laterally with patches of dense, coarse punctures. Fore wing with three SMCs ( Figure 4 (d)).

Material examined: Saudi Arabia

2 ♂, Abha, Raydah, Alt . 1772 m and 1614 m, MT, 8 May 2015 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [ KSMA]; 1 ♂, Al-Baha, Shada Al-Ala, Alt . 1611 m, MT, 15 February 2014 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [ KSMA]; 1♂, Al-Baha, Thee Ain, Alt . 900 m, SW, 14 April 2016 (leg. Ahmed M. Soliman) [ KSMA]; 1 ♂, Abha, Raydah, Alt . 2761 m, MT, 8 May 2015 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [ EFC] .

Distribution

UAE, Oman ( Ohl 2011), Saudi Arabia (new record).

Remark

Female diagnostic characters based on Ohl (2011).

Figures

Figure 4. (a–d) Dolichurus arabicus Ohl (male). (a) Habitus, dorso-lateral view; (b) head, frontal view; (c) mesosoma, dorsal view (pronotal tubercles indicated); (d) fore- and hind wings.