Tachysphex consocius Kohl, 1892

Fig. 13A–G

Tachysphex consocius Kohl, 1892: 217, ♀.

Diagnosis. Body length: 7.0 mm.

Body, including legs and antennae, black (Fig. 13A); pygidial plate reddish apically in some females; mandible reddish medially, black at base and apex (Fig. 13B); labrum flat, concealed under clypeus; middle clypeal section of female convex (Fig. 13B), with one lateral incision, free margin sinuate; postocellar area with erect setae; mid tarsomere II more than twice as long as apically wide (Fig. 13A); mesopleuron distinctly punctate, punctures minute; propodeal dorsum irregularly rugose or irregularly ridged (Fig. 13C); gastral T 1–4 silvery fasciate apically (Fig. 13A); dorsal length of female flagellomere I about 2.3 × apical width; outer apical spine of male foretarsomere II longer than foretarsomere III.

Material examined: 2♀, Farasan, Abdulmajeed farm [16 Q 42.07970’N; 42 Q 08.5781’E], 23–30.ix.2022.

Previous Saudi Arabian records: Fayfa (Pulawski, 2007).

Distribution: Widely distributed in Africa, southern Europe to Central Asia and India and Sri Lanka.

Comments. Characters of this species agree with Pulawski’s key (2007: 49, couplet 103), as well as the diagnosis recognizing the species in Pulawski (2007: 208).