Foenatopus bisignatus Aguiar & Jennings, 2010

Gadallah, Neveen S. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2015, First record of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera, Stephanoidea) for the fauna of Egypt, Zootaxa 3980 (1), pp. 147-150 : 149

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.1.10
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scientific name	Foenatopus bisignatus Aguiar & Jennings, 2010
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Figs. 1–4 View FIGURES 1 – 4

Foenatopus bisignatus Aguiar & Jennings, 2010: 300 . Type data: United Arab Emirates, Al-Ajban, Holotype ♀, Paratypes 6 ♂ with the same data of holotype. Type depositories: the holotype and two male paratypes are deposited in the Universidad Fedrale do Epírido Santo Collection (UFES); 2 male paratypes are deposited in the United Arab Emirates Invertebrate Collection (UAEIC), and 2 male paratypes are deposited in the Waite Insect and Nematode Collection, University of Adelaide (WINC).

Comparative morphometrics. Body length: 9.11 mm (7.99 mm.). Ovipositor length: 7.36 mm (6.94 mm.). Ratios: Ov/ Ptl 3.17 (3.38); Ov/Tt 0.81 (0.87); Ov/Hdl 7.10 (8.24); Ov/Smw 10.64 (10.18); Cxl/Cxh 3.67 (3.30); Cxl/Fml 0.88 (0.82); FmSI 2.5 (2.63); tw/iEE 0.47 (0.47); btl/btw 5.94 (6.07); Pnl/Smw 1.29 (1.20); tw/io 0.59 (0.66); Pnl/Ew 1.99 (1.81); Gsl/Ptl 1.19 (1.39); Ptl/T3l 2.24 (2.38); Hdl/Ew 1.99 (1.86); Ew/tw 1.49 (1.75); iEE/eEE 0.59 (0.58); iEE/io 1.42 (1.39); Ppl/Ew 1.71 (1.49); io/oo 8.91 (11.98); Ptl/Alinotum 2.2 (1.44); 1Cu/1cu-a 1.2 (1.15).

Material examined. A single female specimen from Egypt, Wadi Gebal, St. Catherine, South Sinai, 28°31'54.9 ''N; 33°54'18.36''E, 29.iv.2013 (Malaise trap), leg. Edmardash ( CUE).

Host. The specimen was collected with a Malaise trap placed among Acacia raddiana trees infested by Agrilus roscidus Kiesenwetter ( Coleoptera : Buprestidae ).

Distribution. United Arab Emirates ( UAE), Egypt (new record).

Remarks. The Egyptian specimen greatly resembles those described from UAE (examples, see Figs 1,4), except for very few characters: posterior margin of pronotum reddish to reddish brown as the rest ( Fig. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 4 ) (golden in UAE specimens); basitarsi of all legs yellowish with dark apices (all are light brown in UAE specimens); basal spine on ventral margin of hind femur dark brown, rest of teeth are whitish with dark apices and bases ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 4 ) (all are whitish in UAE specimens); basal end of pronotal neck distinctly U-shaped ( Fig. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 4 ) (obtusely V-shaped in Arabian specimens). Until further specimens are collected, we consider these differences to be intraspecific.