Key to species of Notiphila from the Saudi Arabia

1. Hind metatarsus with black hairs or small bristles posteroventrally; facial setae strong, porrect; face yellow in colour; thorax generally cinereous; abdominal brown fasciae usually in two median broad vittae with only partial lateral extension on to anterior half of the segments.............................................................. N. ignobilis Loew, 1862

- Hind metatarsus with a brush of dense yellow to golden brown hairs posteroventrally; facial setae weak, appreciably weaker than frontals; facial series of two to three short, weak bristles in complete series; antennal segments I and II dark, III pale; brown abdominal fasciae reduced to patches................................................. N. swarabica Cogan, 1968