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Soliman Second : comédie en trois actes et en vers / par Favart.
No full textMusic by Paul-César Gibert. Cf. Grove. Without music. Based only Marmontel's Soliman II. A version published under the title of Les trois sultanes. Signatures: 1-4[sup]8
Tricholabiodes aldryhimi Soliman, sp. nov.
No full textTricholabiodes aldryhimi Soliman, sp. nov. (Figs 1–13) Material examined. Holotype ♂: SAUDI ARABIA, Rawdhat Farshet Sheaal (Al-Aflag) [22 ° 24 ' 56 "N, 46 ° 35 ' 17 "E], 602 m, LT No. 3, 4.VIII. 2015 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [KSMA]. Paratypes: SAUDI ARABIA, 9 ♂ with the same label as holotype [KSMA]; 1 ♂, Rawdhat Farshet Sheaal (Al-Aflag) [22 ° 24 ' 22 ", 46 ° 35 ' 35 "E], 596 m, LT No. 0, 4.VIII. 2015 (leg. A.M. Soliman) [KSMA]; 2 ♂: Rawdhat Farshet Sheaal (Al-Aflag) [22 ° 24 ' 34 "N, 46 ° 35 ' 32 "E], 601 m, LT No. 2, 4.VIII. 2015 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [KSMA]; 16 ♂: Rawdhat Farshet Sheaal (Al- Aflag) [22 ° 23 ' 28 "N, 46 ° 34 ' 46 "E], 582 m, LT No. 6, 4.VIII. 2015 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [KSMA]; 10 ♂: Rawdhat Farshet Sheaal (Al-Aflag) [22 ° 23 ' 28 "N, 46 ° 34 ' 46 "E], 582 m, LT No. 6, 4.VIII. 2015 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [DJBC]; 1 ♂: Rawdhat Al-Sabalh (Al-Zulfi) [26 ° 21 ' 47 "N, 44 ° 58 ' 48 "E], 666 m, LT No. 0, 20.V. 2015 (leg. A.M. Soliman) [KSMA]; 1 ♂: Rawdhat Al-Sabalh (Al-Zulfi) [26 ° 21 ' 31 "N, 44 ° 59 '06"E], 669 m, LT No. 2, 20.V. 2015 (leg. Abdel- Dayem et al.) [DJBC]; 1 ♂: Rawdhat Al-Harmalyiah (Al-Quwayiyah) [24 ° 20 ' 21 "N, 45 ° 08' 38 "E], 774 m, LT No. 0, 25.VIII. 2015 (leg. A.M. Soliman) [KSMA]. Description. MALE. Body length 8.3−9.5 mm. Colour and pubescence. Head including antennal tubercles, mesosoma and first metasomal segment reddish brown (Fig. 1); remainder of metasoma dark brown, last 2 segments lighter (Fig. 10); antenna, palpi and legs pale yellow (Fig 1, 2); mandible ferruginous yellow on basal two-thirds, black apically (Fig. 2); tibial spurs ferruginous yellow. Wings hyaline, fore wing distal to cells slightly infuscated, infuscation invading third submarginal cell distally (Fig. 3); veins yellowish-brown (Fig. 3). Body and legs clothed with subappressed to appressed short and erect long pale setae (Figs 1, 6−8); felt line on T 2 whitish (Fig. 8). Head. In dorsal view slightly wider than pronotum, convergent behind eyes, with straight posterior margin (Fig. 1); face and vertex polished and puncticulate (Fig. 2); MOD about 1.35 × F 1 diameter and 1.6 × distance between mid ocellus and posterior one; IOD 1.3 × OOD; clypeus gently convex on disc, smooth, with median longitudinal carina extending on its basal fourth and free margin entirely convex (without protuberances); scrobal carina weak, provided with distinct tubercle; mandible tridentate apically, with dorsal rim carinate and without an enlarged vertical flange (Fig. 2), subbasal ventral tooth about 0.8 × as long as minimum distance between emargination and upper mandibular margin; malar space about 0.35 × F 1 diameter; scape with longitudinal carina on anterior surface; F 1 1.6 × as long as wide and 0.75 × as long as F 2; F 2 as long as F 3. Mesosoma. Pronotum and mesopleuron punctate-reticulate; mesoscutum puncticulate, with complete notauli slightly divergent anteriorly and faint parapsidal lines; parascutal carina well developed, ending in a tooth; scutellum densely punctate on disc, punctures smaller than those on pronotum; propodeum gently sloping posteriorly, laterally and dorsally foveate-reticulate; propleuron shallowly punctate; metapleuron smooth; metasternal process bidentate on front of hind coxae. Fore wing with second submarginal cell as long as distance between origin of Rs on vein Sc and base of stigma and about 0.6 × as long as marginal cell and first submarginal cell (Fig. 3). Mid femur with maximal width in the middle, evenly convex on both inner and outer surfaces; mid tibia oval in cross-section; mid basitarsus gradually curved in lateral view (Fig. 4); ventral surface of hind femur without clumping of macrosetae, macrosetae shorter than shorter tibial spur; hind coxa convex on ventral surface, without longitudinal carina on mesal margin or setal tuft on posteromesal margin (Fig. 5). Metasoma. First segment petiolate (Fig. 1); T 1 punctate-reticulate, length 1.6 × its maximal width (Fig. 1); S 1 coarse, with weak interrupted longitudinal carina on anterior three-fourths of its length; T 2 with long lateral felt line (Figs 8, 9); S 2 without any traces of felt line (Figs 8, 9), evenly convex, not flattened on the disc (Figs 7, 8); T 2 −T 6 punctulate, punctures about 3−4 diameters apart; S 3 posteromesally with a bifurcal sessile process (Figs 7, 8, 9); T 7 foveate basally and microgranulate on apical greater part, apical border evenly rounded (Fig. 10). Genitalia. 1.8 × as long as wide (Fig. 11); paramere tapered apically, with long and dense setae on inner side (Figs 11, 12), inner margin suddenly sinuate apically; base of paramere subtriangular in lateral view (Fig. 13); volsella lobe-like (Fig. 11); digitus cylindrical (Fig. 11), longer than cuspis; penial valve with inner margin broadly concave, provided with short setae on its tip (Fig. 12). FEMALE. Unknown. Distribution. Saudi Arabia (Najd region). Remarks. The male of T. aldryhimi sp. nov. resembles that of T. brothersi Lelej, 2010 in having a bifurcal process on S 3 but it differs from it by the following: head, mesosoma and metasomal first segment reddish brown, remainder of metasoma dark brown, last 2 segments slightly lighter (body straw-coloured in T. brothersi); fore wing with second submarginal cell medium sized and pentagonal (very small and quadrangular in T. brothersi); bifurcal process on S 3 sessile and not extending beyond S 3 (bifurcal process on S 3 petiolate and slightly extending beyond S 3 in T. brothersi, Fig. 14); inner margin of genital paramere suddenly sinuate apically (straight throughout in T. brothersi, Fig. 15); base of paramere subtriangular in lateral view (cylindrical in T. brothersi, Fig. 16); inner margin of penial valve broadly concave throughout (strongly concave on apical half in T. brothersi, Fig. 15). Etymology. This species is dedicated to Prof. Yousif N. Aldryhim (Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University).Published as part of Soliman, Ahmed M., 2016, A new species of Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski, 1885 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Saudi Arabia, pp. 95-100 in Zootaxa 4067 (1) on pages 96-98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/26276
Oligogaster kimseyae Soliman, spec. nov.
No full text<i>Oligogaster kimseyae</i> Soliman, spec. nov. <p>(Figs 1–10)</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype FEMALE: Egypt (Wadi el Natrun - Beheira, Lower Nile Valley), 30°22'22"N 30°20'48"E, 18.VII.2003, leg. Ahmed M. Soliman [CUE].</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Body length: 2.5 mm. <i>Colouration</i>: Head metallic bluish green with strong cupreous reflection in particular beyond posterior ocelli; antennae brown, scape and pedicel darker; mandible brown with faint metallic tint basally; thorax and metasoma metallic cupreous, pronotum with greenish tint and blackish anterior declivity; T2 apical rim nonmetallic light brown, hyaline; metasomal sterna and legs brown, coxae and femora darker; wings hyaline. Body with extremely short sparse erect to decumbent silvery setae.</p> <p> <i>Head</i>: In dorsal view, wider than pronotum, narrowed and gently rounded behind eyes, slightly concave in rear; vertex and brow moderately reticulate-punctate; POD 1.36 OOD; mid ocellus not lidded; brow without TFC; face fairly broad, least interocular distance as long as eye height; scapal basin shallowly concave, broadly cross-ridged; subantennal space as wide as MOD; malar space 0.4 MOD long; clypeus bald, polished (impunctate), slightly convex in the disc, with apical margin straight; genae distinctly narrow; genal carina weak, contiguous to outer ocular margin; mandible with a small subapical tooth. F1 2× as long as broad, 1.25× as long as pedicel, 1.6× as long as F2 and F3.</p> <p> <i>Mesosoma</i>: Pronotum in greater anterior part, scutellum laterally, metanotum and upper surface of mesopleuron moderately reticulate-punctate; punctures subreticulate elsewhere. Pronotum gently declivitous in front, with humeral part broadly rounded; mesoscutum with complete notuli divergent in front, with distinct parapsidal lines; tegula ovoid, normal-sized, fairly shallowly punctate; metanotum evenly convex; propodeum vertical (invisible in dorsal view); propodeal lateral angle slender and digitate, pointed to backward, strongly concave posteriorly, adjacent to metanotum; mesopleuron moderately angulate ventrally. Tarsal claws edentate, hind tibiae with dark drop-shaped spot occupying more than apical third of inner surface. Fore wing with three closed cells: costal, radial and cubital cells; <i>M</i> vein faintly bent, arising slightly after cu-a; <i>Rs</i> about 0.75× as long as stigma; no evidence of <i>Rs+M</i>, <i>Cu</i> and <i>R1</i>; stigma wellsclerotised; prestigma swollen.</p> <p> <i>Metasoma</i>: Terga finely subreticulate-punctate, punctures on T2 rather sparse posteriorly; T1 markedly short, abruptly declivitous anteriorly, evenly rounded antero-laterally; T2 distinctly long, about 8.3× as long as T1 along midline, obtusely angulated apico-laterally, with apical rim hyaline, without pit row and evenly rounded (edentate); sterna polished and strongly concave.</p> <p>MALE. Unknown.</p>Published as part of <i>Soliman, Ahmed M. & Kimsey, Lynn S., 2013, Oligogaster gen. nov., a new chrysidid genus from Egypt (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Elampini), pp. 197-200 in Zootaxa 3681 (2)</i> on pages 199-200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.2.11, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/222148">http://zenodo.org/record/222148</a>
Correction to: Real-World Treatment Patterns in Patients with Vitiligo in the United States
No full textCorrection to: Dermatol Ther (Heidelb) (2023) 13:2079–2091 10.1007/s13555-023-00983-3
Authors would like to update the middle name of co-author as Ahmed M. Soliman.
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Figure 5 from: Soliman AM, Gadallah NS, Al Dhafer HM (2018) An illustrated key to the Saudi Arabian species of the genus Macroocula Panfilov, 1954, with the description of a new species and the previously unknown female of M. andreai Pagliano (Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae). ZooKeys 742: 35-56. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.742.22854
No full textFigure 5 A, C, E, F M. khorimensis Soliman & Gadallah (♂) B, D, G Macroocula zulfiensis Soliman & Gadallah (♂) A, B Head, dorsal view C, D Mesosoma, dorsal view E Mid and hind coxae and trochanters (protuberance on trochanters indicated) F & G Mesosoma, dorsal view
An illustrated key to the Saudi Arabian species of the genus Macroocula Panfilov, 1954, with the description of a new species and the previously unknown female of M. andreai Pagliano (Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae)
No full textThe Saudi Arabian species of the genus Macroocula Panfilov (Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae) are keyed and illustrated. Eleven species were previously recorded from Arabian fauna: M. andreai Pagliano (♂), M. atuberculata Soliman &amp; Gadallah (♂), M. khorimensis Soliman &amp; Gadallah (♂), M. magna (Invrea) (♀), M. mahunkai (Argaman) (♂), M. nitida (Bischoff) (♂, ♀), M. ohli Pagliano (♂), M. riyadha Gadallah &amp; Pagliano (♂), M. savignyi (Klug) (♂, ♀), M. sinaica (Invrea) (♂) and M. zulfiensis Soliman &amp; Gadallah (♂). A new species, Macroocula asirensis Gadallah &amp; Soliman, sp. n. (♂) from Saloos Al-Manzar, Wadi Yebah and Wadi Targ (Asir region) and the previously unknown female of M. andreai from Wadi Reem (Jazan region) are described and illustrated
Figure 6 from: Soliman AM, Gadallah NS, Al Dhafer HM (2018) An illustrated key to the Saudi Arabian species of the genus Macroocula Panfilov, 1954, with the description of a new species and the previously unknown female of M. andreai Pagliano (Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae). ZooKeys 742: 35-56. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.742.22854
No full textFigure 6 A–C M. atuberculata Soliman & Gadallah (♂). A Habitus, dorsal view B Head, frontal view C Mid and hind coxae and trochanters (weak protuberance on mid trochanter indicated)
Apterogyna oshaibahi Soliman & Gadallah, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Apterogyna oshaibahi</i> Soliman & Gadallah, sp. nov. <p>(Figs 23−27)</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype ♀: Egypt, Wadi Digla, Cairo [29°57'30''N, 31°20'06''E], 20.xi.2014 (leg. Ahmed M. Soliman) [CUE]. Paratype 1 ♀: Egypt, Wadi Digla, Cairo [29°57'30''N, 31°20'06''E], 5.xi.2010 (leg. Ahmed M. Soliman) [CUE].</p> <p> <b>Description</b>. FEMALE (holotype). Body length 7 mm. <i>Colour</i>. Red, except flagellum of antenna light brown; coxae and T6 reddish brown, the latter with darker longitudinal ridges; prosternum, mesepisternum, T1 laterally, T2−T5 and metasomal sterna black; mid and hind tibial spurs waxy white; eye black. <i>Pubescence.</i> Face, vertex and scape of antenna clothed with recumbent white setae (Fig. 24); clypeus, occiput and basal third of mandible with erect white setae; mesosoma, legs and metasoma clothed with long erect and fine whitish setae, denser on metasomal terga than elsewhere. T1, T2 with moderately-developed tuft of white setae apicomesally (Fig. 26); metasomal segments 3−5 with apical fringe of such setae, well-developed on T3.</p> <p> <i>Head</i>. In dorsal view 1.2 × as broad as pronotum, abruptly convergent behind eyes; in frontal view distinctly transverse, its width 1.6 × head height; vertex flattened when seen from frontal view, impunctate, strongly sloping posteriorly; face superficially sparsely and finely punctate (nearly smooth and polished); eye small, subspherical, distinctly prominent, with middle-transversal axis located above midline between free margin of clypeus and vertex; malar space as long as LED; distance between antennal tubercles as long as tubercle length; clypeus gently convex; gena with weakly developed tubercle at the level of lower ocular margin; mandible slender, edentate (Fig. 24). Scape of antenna gently convex; F1 scarcely longer than F2; F2 as long as F3. Palpal segments slender.</p> <p> <i>Mesosoma</i>. Dorsally foveate-reticulate (foveae larger on dorsal face of propodeum than elsewhere) (Fig. 25); pronotum with anterior face gently declivous and posterior margin feebly concave, longitudinally ridged laterally; propodeal posterior face gently declivous, smooth and shiny. Mesopleuron smooth anteriorly and coarsely punctate posteriorly; metapleuron longitudinally coarsely ridged. Mesosternum polished and impunctate.</p> <p> <i>Metasoma</i>. T1 widened posteriorly (pear-shaped), slightly longer than its maximal width, superficially foveate, with apicomesal setal tuft 0.7 × as wide as that on T2 (Fig. 26); T2 bell-shaped, 0.7 × as long as broad, coarsely reticulate-foveate (Fig. 26); T3 with superficial sparse punctures progressively vanishing towards posterior margin; T4, T5 narrow and puncticulate; T6 subtriangular, with longitudinal interrupted ridges, bordered laterally with sharp evenly spaced teeth progressively reduced in size distally (Fig. 27). S1 smooth posteriorly, with superficial sparse punctures anteriorly; S2 and S3 sparsely punctate, punctures contiguous laterally; S4, S5 smooth; S1−S5 with a row of sparse punctures along their apical margin; S6 smooth except for few punctures apicolaterally.</p> <p>MALE unknown.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Egypt: Wadi Digla.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Apterogyna oshaibahi</i> is nearest to <i>A. olivieri</i> except for the following: body with scattered setae (while dense in <i>A. olivieri</i> especially on head); mesosomal dorsum with scattered erect setae (with dense recumbent setae intermixed with erect ones in <i>A. olivieri</i>); setal tufts on T1 and T2 moderately-developed (well-developed in <i>A. olivieri</i>). A new species also resembles <i>A. mateui</i> but differ in the following: metasomal T2 coarsely reticulatefoveate, T3 with scattered superficial punctures (Fig. 26) (T2–T3 with oblong punctures and few ridges in between in <i>A. mateui</i>).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> This species is named in honour of the late Prof. Alaa Din A. Oshaibah professor of the first author).</p>Published as part of <i>Soliman, Ahmed M., Gadallah, Neveen S., Al-Shahat, Ahmed M. & Pagliano, G., 2015, The genus Apterogyna Latreille, 1809 in Egypt, with three new species (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae), pp. 209-220 in Zootaxa 3905 (2)</i> on pages 215-218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.3, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/241302">http://zenodo.org/record/241302</a>
Odontochrydium arabicum Soliman & Rosa & Al Dhafer 2022, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Odontochrydium arabicum</i> Soliman & Rosa, sp. nov. <p>Figures 1–4</p> <p> <b>Type materials</b>. Holotype ♂, <b>Saudi Arabia</b>: Asir region, Abha, Wadi Mashwas [18°10’06”N 42°22’04”E, Alt. 1251 m], 20.XI.2015, leg. Ahmed M. Soliman, sweep net [KSMA]. Paratypes: 1 ♀, <b>Oman</b>: Dhofar, Wadi Magsail [16°52’00”N 53°43’00”E, Alt. 120 m], 2.X.2013, leg. M. Halada, sweep net [MHPC]; 1 ♂, <b>Oman</b>: Dhofar, 55 km W Salalah [16°49’05”N 53°37’12”E, Alt. 1000 m], 4.X.2021, leg. M. Halada, sweep net [MHPC]; 1 ♀, <b>Saudi Arabia</b>: Asir region, Marabah, Al-Hudaithy farm [17°50’53”N 42°23’11”E, Alt. 226 m], 9.III.2015, leg. Hasan A. Dawah, Malaise trap [FSPC]; 2 ♂, <b>Saudi Arabia</b>: Jazan region, Al-Aridah, Gabal Sala, Al-Matal [17°01’02”N 43°07’01”E, Alt. 290 m], 9.I.2022, leg. Ahmed M. Soliman, sweep net [KSMA, PRPC]; 1 ♀, <b>Saudi Arabia</b>: Jazan region, Al-Aridah, Wadi Haif [17°05’20”N 42°58’05”E, Alt. 289 m], 14.I.2022, leg. Ahmed M. Soliman, sweep net [KSMA]; 1 ♀, <b>Yemen</b>: Al Lahima, 16.X–31.XII.2000, leg. A.v. Harten & A.M. Hager, Malaise trap / RMNH Leiden ex collection ZMAN [RMNH]; 1 ♀, <b>Yemen</b>: Al Lahima, 9.IV–5.VI.2001, leg. A.v. Harten, Malaise trap [RMNH]; 1 ♀, <b>Yemen</b>: Wadi Aniz, SSW of Sana [15°00’00”N 44°09’00”E, Alt. 1520 m], 7.X.2006, leg. M. Halada, sweep net [MHPC].</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis</b>. Body metallic dark blue, with violet and greenish reflections (Figs 1, 4); mesoscutal median area reticulate-foveate, with two stout longitudinal ridges forming elongate fovea between ridges (Figs 2E, 4C); metasomal tergites sparsely, largely punctate (Figs 1B, 3C, 4C, D); T3 apico-median tooth longer to distinctly longer than lateral ones (Figs 3C, 4D); S1 and S2 with pair of widely separated black spots, adjacent to lateral margin of sternites (Fig. 3D).</p> <p> <b>Description</b> (Male holotype, Figs 1–3). Body length 5.2 mm. Forewing length 3.9 mm. OOL 1.75 × AOD; POL 2.5 × AOD; MS 1.0 × AOD; P and F1–F3 equal in length.</p> <p> <i>Colour</i> (Figs 1A–C, 2A–F, 3A–D). Body overall metallic dark blue, with slight greenish reflection on TFC, scapal basin, clypeus, pronotal dorsal face and mesopleuron, with violet reflection on T3; legs metallic blue, with tarsi dark brown; first tarsomeres with slight blue reflection; forewing, except hyaline R cell, slightly infumate, in particular 2R1 cell (Fig. 3A), hind wing hyaline; tegula metallic blue; S1 polish brown, with pair of black spots bounded by bluish reflection; S2 and S3 metallic blue, former polish brown anteriorly, with pair of black spots; scape and pedicel blue, flagellomeres black; mandible bluish on basal half, brown apically. The colour of the specimens while they are alive is bright green with some copper reflections, this colour gradually turns into dark blue after their death.</p> <p> <i>Pubescence</i> (Figs 1A, B, 3D). Body sparsely setose, setae whitish and short, about 1 × AOD, silvery, erect to suberect, denser and recumbent on S2 and S3.</p> <p> <i>Head</i> (Fig. 2A–D, F). Frons with strong TFC, weakly angulate medially, with branches encircling mid-ocellar area, forming kidney-shaped area, less deeply punctate than rest of vertex and almost polished around anterior ocellus; vertex and frons largely deeply punctate-reticulate; scapal basin deep, medially strongly, transversely ridged; laterally with small punctures between ridges and covered with suberect silvery setae, densely punctulate with similar setae along inner eye orbit; clypeus densely irregularly punctulate, with tiny dots mixed with small punctures, hardly convex on disc, relatively short, with subantennal distance 1.6 × AOD, with margin straight; antennal sockets close, about 0.4 × AOD apart; malar space finely reticulate-punctulate, about 1.0 × AOD; genal carina strong and complete; anterior ocellus and posterior ocelli lidded; mandible subdistally toothed.</p> <p> <i>Mesosoma</i> (Figs 1A, 2C–F, 3A). Pronotal shelf with two deep submedial pits, with polished median area; pronotal dorsal face largely punctate-subreticulate, with punctures up to 0.75 × AOD, and with interspaces micropunctate; with strongly incurved anterior margin, and posterior margin slightly incurved; with antero-median groove wide and relatively shallow, impunctate and polished on anterior 2/3, reaching more than 3/4 of pronotal length; pronotal humeral angles acute; mesoscutum foveate-reticulate on median lobe and on greater part of lateral lobes; punctate-subreticulate adjacent to tegula, with punctures up to 0.8 × AOD; median mesoscutal lobe with two stout longitudinal ridges and elongate fovea between ridges; tegula narrowed and partially hide; notauli complete, deeply, irregularly foveate; parapsidal furrows developed only until half mesoscutal length; mesoscutellum and metanotum subreticulate-punctate, the latter evenly rounded; propodeal lateral angle rather narrow, with blunt apex and incurved posterior margin; mesopleuron ventrally nearly smooth and armed with three strong teeth, dorsal teeth subequal; fourth sharp tooth present posteriorly on mesopleuron, before metapleuron. Forewing with distal area of Rs 1 × AOD apart from wing margin; M meets M+Cu before cu-a.</p> <p> <i>Metasoma</i> (Figs 2D, 3B–D). Exposed tergites sparsely setiferous punctate, interspaces between punctures smooth to finely punctulate; T3 convex and continuous in profile, without pre-pit swelling or post-pit sunken areas; pit row somewhat distinct, pits small, deep; T3 apical margin with three subtriangular teeth, median tooth slightly longer than lateral ones.</p> <p> <i>Genitalia</i> (Fig. 3E, F). Gonostyle hardly shorter than cuspis of volsella; apex of aedeagus digitate; digitus as long as cuspis.</p> <p> <b>Female (</b> Fig. 4A–D <b>)</b>. Similar to male except body with more violet tint, in particular on bottom of punctures; forewing darker; T3 distinctly acuminate posteriorly, with apico-median tooth distinctly longer than lateral ones.</p> <p> <b>Recognition</b>. The male of <i>Odontochrydium arabicum</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> is similar to the male of the African species <i>O. bicristatum</i> (paratype, Fig. 5A–F) by having mesoscutal median area reticulate-foveate, with two stout longitudinal ridges and T1–T3 sparsely largely punctate; it differs from the latter by: body generally metallic dark blue, sometimes with a little violet tint on T3 and on bottom of punctures (Figs 1, 3D), <i>vs</i>. metallic green in <i>O. bicristatum</i>, with a little bluish tint on mesoscutum, sometimes being rosy to golden red on the head, pronotum and metasomal tergites in prepared specimens (Fig. 5A–E), likely golden or red in nature; clypeus short, with subantennal distance 1.6 × AOD (Fig. 2A), <i>vs.</i> longitudinally elongate, with subantennal distance 2.0 × AOD (Fig. 5C); pronotum with large, deep and dense punctures (Fig. 2C), <i>vs.</i> pronotum with sparser and smaller punctures, not distinctly deep (Fig. 5B); mesoscutellum with sparse, large and round punctures, with wide interspaces bearing small dots (Fig. 2E), <i>vs.</i> mesoscutellum with dense, polygonal punctures without interspaces (Fig. 5B); metanotum with similar punctation, with large, round and deep punctures (Fig. 2D, E), <i>vs.</i> metanotum with dense, not particularly deepened polygonal punctures (Fig. 5B); propodeal lateral tooth obtuse apically (Fig. 2D), <i>vs</i>. sharp apically (Fig. 5B); T3 without longitudinal median ridge (Fig. 3C), <i>vs.</i> T3 with micropunctate longitudinal median ridge (Fig. 5D); apico-median tooth of T3 longer than lateral ones (Fig. 3C), <i>vs.</i> hardly longer than lateral teeth (Fig. 5D); S2 with longer and denser pubescence (Fig. 3D), <i>vs.</i> S2 with shorter and sparse setae (Fig. 5E); gonostyle hardly shorter than cuspis of volsella (Fig. 3E, F), <i>vs.</i> longer than cuspis of volsella in <i>O. bicristatum</i> (Fig. 5F).</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>. Due to a fracture at the inner side of the genital gonocoxae of the holotype male genitalia (Fig. 3E), where they meet, during the preparation for photographing, we added a figure of a complete genital capsule of a paratype (Fig. 3G) in order to clarify the normal shape of the capsule.</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>. The new species name refers to the Arabian Peninsula, where the type specimens were collected.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.</p>Published as part of <i>Soliman, Ahmed M., Rosa, Paolo & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2022, Description of a new species of Odontochrydium Brauns (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) from the Arabian Peninsula, pp. 287-295 in Zootaxa 5100 (2)</i> on pages 288-294, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6145902">http://zenodo.org/record/6145902</a>
A new species of Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski, 1885 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Saudi Arabia
No full textSoliman, Ahmed M. (2016): A new species of Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski, 1885 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Saudi Arabia. Zootaxa 4067 (1): 95-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.1.
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