Opsius pallasi (Lethierry)

Athysanus pallasi Lethierry 1874: 449

Opsius pallasi Lethierry 1874: 449

Athysanus pallasii Puton 1875: 138

Opsius pallasi Dlabola 1979: 131

Opsius distantiatus Dlabola 1960a: 2

Specimens examined.

No specimens were examined from KSA. Several specimens of this species from Iran were studied but not illustrated.

Distribution.

European Russia, Tajikistan (Dlabola 1960a; Metcalf 1967) Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, France, Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Spain, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (Metcalf 1967); Saudi Arabia (Dlabola 1979); Iran (Dlabola 1981) (Figs 75, 76).

Diagnosis.

The males of this species can be easily distinguished from all other members of the genus by the aedeagus and phallobase with one pair of processes; and the aedeagal shafts substantially shorter than the basal appendages.