Key to species of genus Phycus Walker in Egypt

1. Scape shorter than head and distinctly shorter than flagellum (Fig. 6)................................ P. insignis Loew

- Scape longer than head and at least as long as flagellum (Figs 3, 5).............................................. 2

2. Coxae and femora bright yellowish; scape as long as flagellum (Fig. 5); thorax with a single broad, longitudinal whitish tomen- tose stripe medially (Fig. 4); two notopleural setae........................................ P. rufofemoratus Kröber

- Coxae and femora blackish; scape longer than flagellum (Fig. 3); thorax with two longitudinal whitish tomentose stripes sepa- rated by a narrow medial stripe (Fig. 2); one notopleural seta.................................. P. marginatus Kröber