Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011

Gadallah, Neveen S., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2021, New data on the crabronid fauna of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Spheciformes): Crabronidae) from Jazan Province, with the description of three new species and the hitherto unknown male of Miscophus chrysis Kohl, 1894, Journal of Natural History 55 (27 - 28), pp. 1697-1748 : 1727

Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011

( Figure 15 a-f) Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011, p. 610 , ♀, ♂.

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Diagnosis

Characterised by the following combination of characters: body (including antennae and legs) entirely black; frontal shield in both sexes relatively long, pointed just above antennal bases, rounded dorsally and laterally and coarsely rugose in female ( Figure 15 (a)), rounded dorsally, and angulated apico-laterally, densely punctate in male ( Figure 15 (b)); scutum and mesopleuron finely, superficially punctate ( Figure 15 (d)); dorsal enclosure of propodeum coarsely rugose ( Figure 15 (c)); first gastral segment relatively long in both sexes ( Figure 15 (e,f)); S 8 in male completely resembles that of Figure 10 of Antropov (2011, p. 615).

Records from Saudi Arabia

Maha’il ( Antropov 2011), Jazan (present study).

General distribution

Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

Comments

This species fully agrees with Antropov’s diagnosis (2011), as well as his key to scutatum - species group (couplet 3, p. 616).

Material examined

2 ♀, 2 ♂, Jazan (Damad), 17º08 ʹ 05.1 ʺ N 42º45 ʺ 58.8 ʺ E, 20–25.xii.2020, on Moringa oleifera Lam. (Moringaceae) [Malaise trap], leg. Usama Abu El-Ghiet.

Figures

Figure 10. (a–c) Philanthus coarctatus Spinola; (d, e) Philanthus triangulum (Fabricius) (male): (a) Frontal view of head (male); (b) Dorsal view of thorax (part) and gaster (male); (c) Dorsal view of gaster (female); (d) Frontal view of head; (e) Dorsal view of head and thorax.

Figure 15. Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov: (a) Frontal view of head (female); (b) Frontal view of head (male); (c) Propodeum; (d) Dorsal view of thorax (excluding propodeum); (e) Dorsal view of gaster (female); (f) Dorsal view of gaster (male).