Achalcerinys lindus (Mercet)

(Figs 1, 2)

Parasyrpophagus lindus Mercet, 1921: 271 –273, ♀. Spain. Achalcerinys lindus (Mercet): Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 221. Exoristobia lindus (Mercet): Xu & Lou, 2000: 202.

Material examined. KSA [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia]: AL-BAHA: Qunfudah, i–iv. 2011, (MT), Coll.: S. Qahtani (1 ♀, on slide No. EH.1493); Qunfudah, vi.2012, (MT), Coll. Z. Ahmad (1 ♀, on slide, EH.1593); Al-Qassim: Buraidah, Bakeria, 15.xi.2012 (19F), Coll. FR Khan (1 ♀) (ZDAMU).

Comments. This is a well-known species, widely distributed in the Palaearctic region, and Ethiopia and India. It is newly recorded from Saudi Arabia . We give here figures of the antenna and the mesosoma with TI attached (Figs 1 and 2). In the Saudi specimens, the ‘glands’ on TI and TV of gaster are present (Fig. 2) as in the Indian specimens (Hayat 2006: fig. 771).