Micatagla antropovi Pagliano, 2002

Gadallah, Neveen Samy, Soliman, Ahmed Mostafa, Aldryhim, Yousif Nasser & Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed, 2019, First contribution to the study of the genus Micatagla Argaman, 1994 (Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae) in the fauna of Saudi Arabia, with the description of four new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 70, pp. 17-40 : 17

Micatagla antropovi Pagliano, 2002

Figure 3A-E

Diagnosis.

Body clothed with dense white setae (Fig. 3A ); mandible bidentate sub-apically (Fig. 3B ); metasomal segments with row of dense silvery setae along posterior margins (Fig. 3D ); T2 and T3 black, with interrupted ridges forming deep widely spaced ellipsoid punctures, with thin yellow bands (Fig. 3D ); T4 and T5 light yellow; T6 dark brown to black, bordered with large and sharp teeth (Fig. 3E ); S2 and S3 deeply punctate-reticulate.

This species is closely related to the new species M. similis Gadallah & Soliman, from which it may be differentiated by the colour of setae covering face, length of the malar space, the setal density of posterior margin of metasomal tergites, the thickness of the yellow bands on metasomal tergites, and the shape of lateral setae of T6 characters given in the key. It may also be confused with the Egyptian species, M. ezzati Gadallah & Soliman (Fig. 15 ) in which the body is smaller in size; mandible edentate (bidentate in M. antropovi ); colour and sculpturing of T2 and T3, in which they are blackish red (both tergites are black in M. antropovi ), T2 with ellipsoid punctures and with longitudinal shiny ridges in between, while T3 with fine longitudinal regular ridges (both tergites with interrupted ridges forming deep, widely spaced ellipsoid punctures in M. antropovi ); S2 and S3 with widely spaced punctures (deeply punctate-reticulate in M. antropovi ).

Material examined.

1♀: Egypt: Fayoum (Kom Osheim), 30.v.2013, leg. Ahmed M. Soliman [EFC] .

Previous records from Saudi Arabia.

Abu Arish (Jazan region) ( Pagliano 2002).

Figures

Figure 3. Micatagla antropovi Pagliano, 2002. A Dorsal habitus B frontal view of head C lateral view of head D metasomal T 2 and T 3 E matasomal T 6.

Figure 15. Micatagla ezzati Gadallah & Soliman, 2014. A Frontal view of head B dorsal aspect of mesosoma C dorsal aspect of metasoma.