Ammatomus aljahdhamii SCHMID- EGGER nov.sp. (figs 1-3)

Holotype: female Oman, 30.xi.2018 Dhofar, Salalah, Ayn Athum 17.114N 54.364E, leg. Al- Jahdhami (coll ZSM).

R e c o g n i t i o n: A. aljahdhamii is unique amoung Palearctic Ammatomus species by the extended black body colour with only a few whitish marks, by a relatively large T 1 (the species is intermediate between A. rogenhoferi and remaining species) and with the lack of punctation on propodeum and abdomen.

D e s c r i p t i o n o f h o l o t y p e, f e m a l e: Body length 10.2 mm. Colour: black, whitish yellow are: clypeus apart from lower third, large spot on inner eye margin below scape, very small spot below scape, scape (AS I) below, thin band on hindmargin of pronotum, pronotal lobe, lateral spots on T 1 apically, narrow bands on T 2 and T 3, medially interrupted, medial band on tergites V, indistinct medial spot on T 5. Forefemora with large spot on inner side, and small spot on outer side, midfemora with small spot on outer side. Mid- and hindtibiae black with brownish innerside, hindtibia black with brownish apex. Tarsi dark yellowish-green, hindtarsomere black in apical half. AS VIII- XII orange red below, last AS nearly completely red. Wing venation black. Morphology: Clypeus and frons with some erect white setae, remaining body without erect setae, with fine and sparse pubescence. T 1 1x. Apical margin of T 4 and T 5 with some white bristles. Frons around midocellus with some irregular punctation, mesoscutum and scutellum with sparse punctation, mesopleuron with dense punctation, punctures 0,3 - 1 diameters apart, punctures larger than those of mesoscutum.

M a l e: unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Southern Oman, Dhofar region.

E t y m o l o g y: The species is dedicated to the Omani entomologist Ali Al-Jahdhami, who collected the holotype.