Micatagla saudita Soliman & Gadallah, 2019
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Micatagla saudita Soliman & Gadallah
Figures 4C View Figure 4 , 5C View Figure 5 , 6C View Figure 6 , 7C View Figure 7 , 8C View Figure 8 , 9C View Figure 9 , 10C View Figure 10 , 11C View Figure 11 , 12C View Figure 12 , 13C View Figure 13 , 14C View Figure 14
Material examined.
Holotype ♀: Saudi Arabia, Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifah , WHN05), 27.viii.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem et al. [ZMB] ; Paratypes: 1♀ Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifah , WHS02), 27.viii.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem et al. [ZMB] ; 1♀ Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifah , WHS03), 27.viii.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem et al. [ZMB] ; 1♀ Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifah , WHS05), 27.viii.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem et al. [ZMB] ; 1♀ Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifah , WHU02), 12.x.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem et al. [ZMB] ; 5♀ Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifah , WHS01), 12.x.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem et al. [ZMB] ; 1♀ Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifah , WHS02), 12.x.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem et al. [ZMB] ; 1♀ Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifah , WHN01), 12.x.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem et al. [ZMB] ; 2♀ Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ( Wadi Hanifa WHS02), 12.x.2015, PT, leg. Abdeldayem, M. et al. [EFC] .
Diagnosis.
Body slender; head, mesosoma and the first and 4-6th metasomal segments uniformly red (Figs 4C View Figure 4 , 5C View Figure 5 ); T1 pear-shape (Fig. 11C View Figure 11 ); T2 and T3 dark brown, longitudinally closely strigate, both tergites with distinct yellow bands and compact (dense) setal rows along the whole posterior margins (Fig. 12C View Figure 12 ); T6 laterally with relatively small but sharp teeth, a little spaced in the middle, posterior ones minute and rounded at the apex (Fig. 14C View Figure 14 ).
The new species may be confused with M. ezzati Gadallah & Soliman, 2014 (Egypt) (Fig. 15 View Figure 15 ) in having the same body colour, T6 red with lateral teeth not excessively large and a little spaced in the middle, but differs from it by having body very slender, mesosoma striatopunctate (Fig. 9C View Figure 9 ) and T2 and T3 longitudinally strigate (Fig. 12C View Figure 12 ) (body robust, mesosoma densely punctate (Fig. 15B View Figure 15 ) and T2 and T3 ellipsoid punctate with ridges in between (Fig. 15C View Figure 15 ) in M. ezzati ).
Description.
Female (Holotype). Body slender, 4.0 mm in length.
Colour (Figs 4C View Figure 4 , 5C View Figure 5 , 12C View Figure 12 , 14C View Figure 14 ): Head including antenna, mesosoma, legs and the first and 4th -6th (except lateral margins of T6, including teeth, slightly brownish); metasomal segments as well as S2 red; T2 and T3 dark brown, both tergites with well-developed yellow bands along posterior margin that are widened medially; S3 reddish brown; maxillary and labial palpi yellow; mandible reddish brown, red basally; fore tibial spur red, mid and hind ones waxy white.
Pubescence (Figs 6C View Figure 6 , 10C View Figure 10 , 11C View Figure 11 , 12C View Figure 12 ): Body including scape of antenna and legs clothed with scattered fine and erect white setae; face with scattered procumbent pale-golden setae, denser and inwardly directed on vertex, dorsum of mesosoma with similar but erect setae; posterior margin of T1-5 with row of dense silvery setae, directed towards middle.
Head (Figs 6C View Figure 6 , 7C View Figure 7 , 8C View Figure 8 ): In dorsal aspect scarcely wider than the maximal width of pronotum (about 1.1 ×), with thin occipital carina; face and vertex with scattered setiferous punctures, vertex broadly convex; gena and malar area nearly smooth; eye small, somewhat bulged laterally when seen in front or dorsal view, located above mid line between clypeus and vertex when seen in front view; distance between antennal tubercles about as long as tubercle length; malar space hardly longer than eye height (about 1.1 ×); scape of antenna about 2.5 × as long as F1; F1 as long as F2. Clypeus broad, with apical half nearly smooth and gently bent toward the mouth, basal part of clypeus with scattered setiferous punctures; mandible edentate.
Mesosoma (Figs 9C View Figure 9 , 10C View Figure 10 ): Pronotum shallowly foveate dorsally, weakly rugose laterally, rectangular (about 1.65 × as wide as long at maximum width), with anterior margin gently declivous, humeral angle rounded and posterior margin broadly concave; remainder of mesosomal dorsum setiferous striatofoveate; posterior face of propodeum gently declivous, smooth and impunctate; mesopleuron superficially foveolate; metapleuron smooth above, and weakly transversely ridged below. Inner hind tibial spur about 0.65 × as long as hind related basitarsus.
Metasoma (Figs 11C View Figure 11 , 12C View Figure 12 , 13C View Figure 13 , 14C View Figure 14 ): T1 pear-shape, as long as its maximal width, shallowly setiferous foveate; T2 semicircular, about 1.5 × as wide as long, with yellow band remarkably widened medially; T2 and T3 longitudinally strigate; ridges on T3 more regular and closer than those of T2; T4 and T5 posteriorly with row of very close ellipsoid punctures; T6 with weak, scattered and widely interrupted brown ridges, narrowly rounded at apex, laterally with small but sharp teeth, becoming minute towards apex. S2 and S3 smooth except laterally with scattered setiferous punctures, with row of long scattered setae along posterior margins; S4-5 smooth and shiny except posteriorly with row of setiferous punctures; hypopygium with setiferous punctures on posterior half.
Variation.
Some paratype specimens are longer, about 4.8-5.5 mm. In some specimens T6 slightly darker, yellow-brown; face with darker golden setae.
Distribution.
Saudi Arabia (Riyadh region).
Etymology.
The specific name ' Micatagla saudita ' is a Latinized adjective in the feminine gender derived from the country of the type locality, Saudi Arabia.
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