Nitela feltoni Gayubo & Schmid-Egger, 2014

Schmid-Egger, Christian & Harten, Antonius Van, 2022, Additions to the digger wasps (Hymenoptera, Spheciformes) of the United Arab Emirates with description of ten new species, Zootaxa 5219 (6), pp. 543-575 : 562

Nitela feltoni Gayubo & Schmid-Egger, 2014

( Fig. 87–88 )

New records: 3 ♀ 31.i.2016; 3 ♀ 29.ii.2016, 2 ♀ 31.iii.2016, 1 ♀ 13.vi.2016, 1 ♀ 18.v.2017, 1 ♁ 15.vii.2017 30 km SEE Ruwais, Houbara Protected Area ; 3 ♀ 10.xii.2015 Abu Dhabi mangroves; 1 ♁ 3 ♀ 15.iv.2014 5 ♁ 33 ♀ 15.xi.2014 30 ♀ 15.i.2015; 14 ♀ 15.ii.2015; 1 ♁ 3 ♀ 15.iii.2015; 1 ♀ 15.iv.2015; 1 ♁ 4 ♀ 15.v.2015 Abu Dhabi, Al Wathba Wetland Reserve ; 1 ♀ 29.ix.2018, Al Bida‘a Protected Area ; 2 ♀ 29.iii.2018; 4 ♀ 29.ix.2018 Barg alSaqoor; 1 ♀ 01.xi.2018 Yawal Dibsa (all leg. A.S & AvH, in Malaise traps, coll. CSE) .

Description of the hitherto unknown male: Body length: 2.8–3.3 mm. Agreing in main characters with female (see description of Gayubo & Schmid-Egger, 2014). The following characters are distinctive: medial part of clypeus (between antennal sockets) elevated and roof like, diverging towards apex, with longitudinal keel along whole length, ending in short tooth on apical margin of clypeus. Toothlike corner present on each side of median tooth. AS 2 and AS 3 short, equal in length, AS 4 longer than AS 3.

Distribution. United Arab Emirates.

Figures

FIGURES 81–88. 81–86. Gastrosericus waltlii; 81. ♀ from Yemen, lateral view. 82. ♀ from Yemen, face. 83. ♀ from Yemen, clypeus. 84. ♁ from Morocco, lateral view. 85. ♁ from Morocco, forewing. 86. ♁ from Morocco, sterna. 87–88. Nitela feltoni ♁; 87. lateral view. 88. Face.