taxonID	type	description	language	source
03C5DC44500D6F79FF6EAD93BE09F800.taxon	discussion	Based on Fernanadez-Triana & van Achterberg (2017) and Fernndez-Triana et al. (2020), this is the first record of the genus Dolichogenidea for Saudi Arabia, with the following species described as new.	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC44500C6F73FF6EAD95BE56FBB3.taxon	description	Figs 3 (A – C), 4 (A – F), 5 (A, B), 6 (A – D)	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC44500C6F73FF6EAD95BE56FBB3.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined: Holotype ♀: Saudi Arabia, Jazan [Faifa mountains] [17 ⁰ 15 ‵ 21.3 ‶ N, 43 ⁰ 06 ‵ 06.4 ‶ E], reared from larvae and pupae of a phycitine moth (Pyralidae) developed in galls formed by Eriophyes liosoma mite on Z. spina-christi branches, 9 Oct. 2024; paratypes: 3 ♀, 4 ♂, same data.	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC44500C6F73FF6EAD95BE56FBB3.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The new species does not resemble any of the described Afrotropical (van Achterberg & Polaszek 1996), or Palaearctic species (Tobias 1995). is characterized by its black colour (Fig. 3 A-C), in male T 1 and T 2 pale brown laterally, and posterior margin of T 2 - 5 narrowly yellowish (Fig. 6 C); the fore leg (except black coxa) entirely yellow (Fig. 3 A), middle leg mostly yellow with some black (Fig. 3 A), and hind leg entirely black (except base of hind tibia yellow) (Fig. 3 A, 6 B); metasomal T 1 nearly parallel-sided, to slightly widened at apex, smooth anteriorly and densely punctate-rugose posteriorly, with longitudinal striations latero-posteriorly; T 2 with a narrow transverse sparsely punctate depression at base; ovipositor as long as or slightly longer than hind tibia (Fig. 3 A); in female pterostigma whitish margined with black (Fig. 4 C), in male the whitish colour of pterostigma more pronounced (Fig. 6 D); vein 1 R 1 of fore wing distinctly longer than pterostigma (Fig. 4 C, 6 D).	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC44500C6F73FF6EAD95BE56FBB3.taxon	description	Description. Holotype ♀: body length: 2.0 mm. Colour (Figs 3 A – C, 4 A, B. 5 A, B). Black including antenna and tegula; palpi whitish; fore leg yellow (except black coxa); middle leg with coxa black, femur mostly yellow (black dorsally and ventrally), basal half of tibia yellow, remainder black, first four tarsomeres yellow, last tarsomere black; hind leg black except base of tibia yellow, tibial spurs whitish; ovipositor reddish with black ovipositor sheaths; wings (Fig. 4 C, D) hyaline, fore wing with pterostigma white, margined with black, veins transparent, C + SC + R black (yellow basally), veins r and 3 - SR margined with black. Head (Figs 4 B, C, 5 A). Antenna slightly shorter than body; OOL 2.1 × MOD; face shiny, finely punctate; vertex densely punctate; occipital carina absent, occiput smooth and shiny; clypeus separated from face by a deep sulcus, transverse and somewhat elevated, finely punctate; eyes densely setose, slightly convergent ventrally; ocelli small, placed in an isosceles triangle; face with dense fine whitish setae; antenna with four penultimate flagellomeres 1.2 × as long as wide. Mesosoma (Figs 3 A, C, 4 F, E, 5 A). Pronotum completely hidden under the elevated mesoscutum in dorsal view; mesoscutum densely finely punctate throughout, with fine short pale setae; notauli indistinct; scuto-scutellar suture thin, punctate or pitted; scutellum sparsely punctate, strigate laterally and smooth and shiny posteriorly; axilla smooth and shiny; metanotum foveolate; propodeum shiny, punctate dorsally, with hexagonal areola posteriorly, surrounded with lateral deep areas; mesopleuron finely punctate and dull anteriorly, with smooth shiny area posteriorly; metapleuron smooth and shiny, depressed medially, finely punctate latero-ventrally at place of meeting mesopleuron. Fore wing (Fig. 4 C) with vein r / 2 RS 1.5 ×, issued after the middle of pterostigma; vein 1 R 1 (metacarp) distinctly longer than pterostigma, 1.9 ×; discal cell distinctly higher than wide; pterostigma triangular, length 3.7 × its width. Hind wing (Fig. 4 C) with vannal lobe evenly convex, with fringe of dense fine setae, longer at basal half. Legs (Figs 3 A, 5 A, B). Fore and middle coxa densely finely punctate, hind coxa relatively large, attaining end of T 2, densely superficially punctate externally; hind femur somewhat flattened, 3.1 × as long as wide, finely punctate; inner mid tibial spur 2.0 × as long as outer spur, hind tibial spurs subequal, its inner spur 0.45 × hind basitarsus. Metasoma (Figs 3 A, C, 5 B). Metasomal T 1 nearly parallel-sided, to slightly widened at apex, emarginate postero-medially, length / width posteriorly 1.5 ×, smooth anteriorly and densely punctate-rugose posteriorly, with longitudinal striations latero-posteriorly; T 2 transverse, with a narrow transverse sparsely punctate depression at base, length / width 0.65 ×, distinctly shorter than T 3, rest of T 2 smooth and shiny; rest of tergites nearly smooth, duller, last tergite very small, distinctly concave posteriorly, smooth and shiny, with two pale long setae overlapping from both sides posteriorly; hypopygium not so long, wrinkled medially; ovipositor about same length of hind tibia or slightly longer, curved downwardly; ovipositor sheath setose along its distal two-thirds, about same length of hind tibia or slightly longer. Male (Fig. 6 A – D). Body length: 2.0 – 2.5 mm. Pterostigma with whitish area more extensive, 2.6 × as long as wide, veins whitish (except for costal vein, and metacarp); vein 1 R 1 1.4 × as long as pterostigma; T 1 and T 2 pale brown laterally; T 1 smooth and shiny, slightly narrowed posteriorly, 1.8 × as long as its posterior width; all metasomal tergites with very narrow white posterior margins; middle femur black with yellowish apex, whitish at base of hind tibia more extensive than in female. Etymology. The new species is named in reference to the region where the specimens were collected. Distribution. Saudi Arabia (Jazan, Faifa). Comments. This is the first record of the genus Dolichogenidea Saudi Arabia (see Fernandez-Triana et al. 2020; Whitfield et al. 2022). In some of female paratypes, posterior margin of T 2 - 4 narrowly whitish, mesopleuron ventrally yellow. The new species does not agree with any of the described Afrotropical (De Saeger 1944; van Achterberg & Polaszek 1996), or Palaearctic species (Tobias 1995) in body colour or sculpture.	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC4450076F73FF6EAE7ABE6EFA63.taxon	discussion	The cosmopolitan genus Temelucha is currently comprising more than 235 species worldwide (Yu et al. 2016). Prior to this work, Temelucha was represented in Saudi Arabia by a single species, T. persicator Horstmann & Yu, 1999 (Horstmann 1981 as Temelucha similis (Hedwig )). The biology of T. persicator is so far unknown (Yu et al. 2016). Here we include a second species, T. minuta (Morley, 1912), from Saudi Arabia.	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC4450076F77FF6EAD47BF2AFB27.taxon	description	Figs 7 (A, B), 8 (A – D), 9 (A – D)	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC4450076F77FF6EAD47BF2AFB27.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined: Saudi Arabia: 4 ♀, 1 ♂, Jazan (Faifa mountains) [17 ⁰ 15 ‵ 21.3 ‶ N, 43 ⁰ 06 ‵ 06.4 ‶ E], reared from larvae and pupae of a phycitine moth (Pyralidae) developing inside the galls of Z. spina-christi, 14 Oct. 2024. Brief description. Female, body length: 4.0 - 4.8 mm. Body predominantly black (Fig. 7 A), with the following parts yellow: inner and posterior margins of eyes (broadly) (Fig. 8 A – C), face under antennal bases (separated from eyes by thin black streaks) (Fig. 8 A), clypeus (Fig. 8 A), mandible (except black teeth) (Fig. 8 A), maxillary complex, middle leg entirely, hind leg with coxa, trochanter, trochantellus, ventral margin of hind femur, middle of hind tibia, all tarsi yellow (with black last tarsomere and apices of all tarsomeres), antero-lateral margins of mesoscutum, an indistinct yellow streak (Fig. 8 B), last metasomal tergites (Fig. 7 A), all metasomal sternites, tegula (Fig. 9 B), lateral sides of pronotum (Fig. 7 A). Wings hyaline, with brownish pterostigma (yellowish at upper margin) (Fig. 9 A). Mesoscutum densely finely punctate (Fig. 8 B, C), sparse on scutellum (Fig. 8 C); propodeum (Fig. 8 C) with small costula baso-medially, median areola opened, constricted medially, punctate along its upper half, and finely transversely striated at lower half; fore wing (Fig. 9 A) with vein M + CU 1 largely spectral, marginal cell distinctly short; metasoma compressed laterally (Fig. 7 A), T 1 long, swollen apically, with fine longitudinal striations apically (Fig. 9 C), sides of T 1 fused with the sternite (Fig. 9 B); T 2 distinctly shorter than T 1 (Fig. 9 C), densely longitudinally striated throughout, finely alutaceous and shiny apically and laterally (Fig. 9 C), rest of tergites finely alutaceous, sparsely punctate; ovipositor nearly straight, slightly sinuated apically; ovipositor sheath distinctly longer than hind tibia, 1.8 × as long as hind tibia (Figs 7 A, 9 C). Male (Fig. 8 B): Body length: 4.0 mm. Differs from female by the following: head entirely yellow (except ocellar triangle that extends postero-medially black); ocellus large, with OD larger than OOL; antenna with scape and pedicel yellow, F 1 – 8 yellow apically pronotum yellow laterally, mesoscutum yellow laterally and along notauli; tegula yellow; scutellum yellow laterally at basal half; T 2 posteriorly, rest of tergites yellow laterally, last tergite entirely yellow; mesopleuron yellow and reddish, densely finely punctate, metapleuron finely rugose; flagellum with 23 flagellomeres. Colour variation. In some female specimens, face with black more extensive (except median bulged area dark yellow); mesosoma and metasoma (except metasomal sternites yellow) entirely black (Fig. 8 D); ovipositor reddish preapically. Distribution. Australia (Paull & Austin 2006), Cyprus (Gauld 1980), India (Gupta 1987), Madagascar (Rousse et al. 2011), Réunion (Rosa & Villemant 2012), Seychelles (Morley 1912 as Tarytia minuta), Thailand (Kerrich 1959; Gupta 1987), Saudi Arabia (Jazan) (new record). Host records. Bilobata subsecivella (Zeller) (Kerrich 1959; Gauld 1980) and Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) (Gauld 1980, 1984) (Gelechiidae), Etiella behrii (Zeller) (Pyralidae) (Townes & Townes 1973; Gauld 1980, 1984), Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) (Paull & Austin 2006) and Pammenopsis critica (Meyrick) (Gauld 1980) (Tortricidae). Comments. Although a widespread species, it is the first record of T. minuta for the fauna of Saudi Arabia. It has been recorded as a parasitoid of the phycitine lucerne seed web moth Etiella behrii in Seychelle (Gauld 1980). Our specimens agree with the characters of T. minuta in Rousse et al. ’ s key (2011: 17, couplet 2) mainly by its small size, and having the fore wing vein M + Cu distinctly unpigmented basally. This species is highly variable in colour (Rousse et al. 2011). It also agrees with T. minuta in Vas’ key of the Palaearctic species (2016: 74, couplet 4).	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC4450036F77FF6EAF9EBA95FA1B.taxon	discussion	This is the first record of the genus Trathala for the Saudi Arabian fauna. The genus is characterized by having a simple hind femur, without ventral spine, ventral margins of T 1 separate, leaving S 1 conspicuous (Rousse & Villemant 2012).	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC4450036F76FF6EAE8FBB0EFB43.taxon	description	Figs 10 (A – D), 11 (A – D), 12 (A – C)	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC4450036F76FF6EAE8FBB0EFB43.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined: Saudi Arabia (Jazan): Holotype ♀, reared from larva and pupa of a phycitine moth (Pyralidae) developing inside the galls of Z. spina-christi, 9 Oct .. 2024.	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
03C5DC4450036F76FF6EAE8FBB0EFB43.taxon	description	Description of holotype female: Body length (excluding ovipositor): 5.0 mm. Colour. Body yellow (Fig. 10 A – D), with the end of all femora whitish (Fig. 10 B), and hind tibia mostly whitish, black apically and reddish at base (Fig. 12 C); mandibular teeth black (Fig. 10 C); inner margins of eyes, clypeus, and mandible (except tip black) yellowish white (Fig. 10 C, D); T 2 with a prolonged black area extended from base to slightly after the middle (Fig. 12 B); T 3 with black subbasal median spot (Fig. 12 B), T 3, T 6 and apex of T 7, T 7 black at basal half (Fig. 12 C); hind tarsus (Fig. 12 C), ovipositor and ovipositor sheaths are black (Fig. 12 C). Wings hyaline, with black veins, pterostigma black, whitish along upper margin (Fig. 11 D). Head (Figs 10 B – D, 11 A). Face superficially granulate medially, rest nearly smooth; clypeus convex, separated from face by a thin groove, smooth, 2.4 × as wide as long, with rounded apical margin; frons depressed medially just behind middle ocellus, extended to antennal bases, with indistinct transverse wrinkles; vertex finely punctate; occipital carina present medially and lacking laterally, very thin; ocelli relatively large, OOL 1.6 × OOL, and as long as OD; mandible with two equal teeth; malar space about as long as basal width of mandible; temple short, gently rounded beneath eye; antenna with 29 flagellomeres, F 1 4.0 × as long as wide. Mesosoma (Figs 10 B, 11 A, B). Pronotum nearly smooth; mesoscutum with strong notauli, densely finely punctate medially, distance between punctures shorter than puncture diameter, smooth basally, laterally and posteriorly; scutellum slightly convex, densely punctate, without lateral carinae; metanotum relatively large, constricted medially, smooth; propodeum long, with complete carinae, area superomedia 2.1 × as long as its widest part, separated from area petiolaris by a transverse carina; area superomedia and surroundings punctate, punctures are coarser inside area superomedia; area petiolaris transversely wrinkled; mesopleuron upper area smooth and shiny, with very few punctures, rest densely finely punctate; metapleuron densely finely punctate throughout. Fore wing (Fig. 11 D) with pterostigma 2.0 × as long as its width, distinctly shorter than vein 1 - R 1 (0.7 ×); vein r arising beyond middle of pterostigma; vein 2 Rs-m forming an obtuse angle with vein 2 m-cu, with a single bulla at upper side; vein RS ending a small distance before wing apex. Hind wing (Fig. 11 D) with Cu 1 above middle, with 4 hamuli. Legs (Figs 10 B, 12 A, C). Hind femur swollen, 6.0 × as long as broad; hind tibia with two longitudinal rows of short, black spines along its outer side; middle tibia with two spurs. Metasoma (Figs 10 A, B, 11 C, 12 B, C). Lower edge of T 1 completely separated and parallel; T 1 thin, somewhat widened posteriorly; T 2 about as long as T 1, 1.9 × as long as its apical width; T 1 laterally, all T 2 and basal two-thirds of T 3 finely longitudinally striated, rest of tergites smooth; ovipositor straight, shorter than metasoma, 1.5 × as long as hind tibial length. Male: Unknown. Etymology. The new species is named in reference to “ Jazan ”, from which the specimen was collected. Comments. Our female specimen does not agree with any of the Palaearctic Trathala species in Choi et al. (2014: 328). Also, it does not agree with Madagascan species (Rousse et al. 2011), or Réunion species of Rousse & Villemant (2012). Based on Narolsky (2002), the new species differs from T. concolor (Szépligeti, 1905), the closest species, in various aspects, the most distinctive of which are: metasoma with black areas on T 1 and T 2 (Fig. 12 B) (body entirely yellow in T. concolor); hind tibia distinctly infuscate at apex (Fig. 12 C) (entirely yellow in T. concolor); pterostigma black, with whitish upper margin (Fig. 11 D) (pterostigma yellow in T. concolor); propodeum with area superomedia punctate, and area petiolaris transversely wrinkled (Fig. 11 B) (propodeum in T. concolor transversely striate).	en	Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Alfaifi, Tawfiq, Abo-Zaid, Mabrouk A., Gadallah, Neveen S. (2025): Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) reared from a phycitine caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) growing in galls on Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) (Rhamnaceae). Zootaxa 5637 (3): 559-578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.5
