Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011

Fig. 16A–G

Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011: 610, ♀, ♁.

Diagnosis. Body (including antennae and legs) entirely black (Fig. 16A); 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), densely punctate in male (Fig. 16C), with an area of silvery pubescence extending from middle ocellus but not reaching ventral end of shield (Fig. 16B, C); last antennal segment in male relatively long, narrowly rounded apically, about as long as preceding three antennal segments or slightly shorter (Fig. 16G); scutum with dense superficial punctures (Fig. 16D), mesopleuron densely punctate, with interspaces (Fig. 16E); metapleuron finely transversely striate (Fig. 16E); dorsal enclosure of propodeum coarsely rugose, with dense, upturned fine pale setae posteriorly (Fig. 16D); first gastral segment distinctly long in both sexes (Fig. 16F); 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).