Polemistus braunsii (Kohl, 1905)

Fig. 13 (A–D)

Passaloecus braunsii Kohl, 1905: 361, ♂.

Diagnosis. Body length 4.5 mm, entirely black (Fig. 12A, B, D), pronotal lobe ivory white (Fig. 13A); sting reddish (Fig. 13A); scape and pedicel clear yellow (Fig. 13B); legs black with few white markings, hindtibia whitish at base (Fig. 13A, D); wings hyaline, with dark brown stigma and veins (Fig. 13C). Eye with inner carina well-develop along its whole length (Fig. 13B); clypeus densely covered with silvery pubescence obscuring underlying integument and apex (Fig. 13B); frontal depression densely punctato-rugose (Fig. 13B); scutum widely obliquely rounded antero-laterally, with distinct crenulate notauli extending to posterior margin, joining posteriorly in U-shape (Fig. 13D).

Material examined: 1♀, Fifa Mountain (Development Authority Farm-almukhafih), 1260 m [17º16’07ʺN 43º07’32.3ʺE], May, 2023, Malaise trap in coffee orchard, Usama Abu El-Ghiet collector .

Distribution: Tropical Africa (Pulawski 2023), Saudi Arabia (new record).

Comments. The genus Polemistus with its species P. braunsii is a first recorded for the Arabian Peninsula and Saudi Arabia. Characters of our female specimens agree with Leclercq’s key (1959: 51, couplet 5).