Ferreola denticulata TASCHENBERG, 1869, figs 20-25

Ferreola denticulata TASCHENBERG, 1869: 72. Holotype female Sudan, " Chartum " [= Khartoum] (Halle).

Sphex dimidiata (FABRICIUS, 1793, nec. VAN DER LINDEN, 1827), misidentification, is Schistonyx perezi (TOURNIER, 1895), (see WAHIS & GROS 2000).

Records: Greece: 1 male 1 female 24.vii.1965 Alt Korinth; 1 male 31.v.2006 Samos, Phytagorio (OLL): 1 male 15.ix.2014 Lesbos, Scala Polichnitos (CSE); 1 female vi.1971 Insel Rhodos; 1 female 12.viii.2003 Rhodos, Tsambika beach (CSE); 2 females 21.viii.1925 Kithira Island (Berlin); male 10.v.2014 Peloponnes, Kalogria, photo by H.Wiesbauer (fig. 21). Israel: 1 male 16.vi.1965 En Gedi; 1 male 9.iv.1986 Qumran (OLL) Sudan: male female 8.iii.1994 150 km SE Khartoum, Narga (CSE).

Diagnosis: Ferreola denticulata can be recognized by its large body size (females 17-21 mm, one female only 15 mm, males 12-18 mm) in combination with a distinctive colour pattern: Head (apart the black area around ocelli), pronotum, scutellum and metanotum are orange-yellow, remaining body black. Wings are dark infuscate. Propodeal declivity is evenly spoke-like striate, striae originate on medial part of declivity base, and reach the edge between declivity and propodeal dorsum, leaving a small zone behind edge smooth. The similar F. pseudodenticulata nov.sp. is smaller (females 13.5-16 mm, males 9-13 mm), striae of propodeal declivity are shorter, more irregular and cover only the lower half of declivity.

Geograf ic distribution: Greece (mainland and islands), Israel, Sudan. Cyprus; Algeria /Hoggar (WAHIS & TERZO 1996, as Ferreola dimidiata), Egypt (PRIESNER, 1955: 189 as Platyderes dimidiatus Lind.), Turkey (ÖZBEK et. al. 2000, as Ferreola dimidiata (VAN DER LINDEN, 1827)).