Dentilla testacea ( Klug, 1829 )

16. Dentilla testacea ( Klug, 1829)

( Figs 47–50)

Mutilla testacea Klug, 1829 : [20], tab. 5, fig. 4, ♂, lectotype (designated here), ♂ – “Arab. Wüste / Ehrenberg S. // Arab. d. Ehrbg [Arabia deserta as referring to Jiddah and places to the north, perhaps including Al Muwaylib of the 1823-I 824 journey ( Baker 1997)] // testacea Kl. // 6565 // testacea Kl det. Bischoff // Type // Lectotipo / Eremomyrme testacea (Klug) / J. Suárez det. 1968 // Zool. Mus. Berlin // Dentilla testacea (Klug) B. Petersen det. 1988” [MNHU], examined.

Ephutomma testacea : Bischoff 1920: 154, ♂.

Dentilla testacea : Lelej 2002: 52; 2006: 24 View Cited Treatment , ♂; Pagliano et al. 2020: 171; Gadallah et al. 2020: 146 View Cited Treatment , ♂.

Diagnosis. MALE. Ocelli large, OOD 2 × diameter of lateral ocellus. The head is reddish-brown. Wings are hyaline with darkened apex. Anterior border of clypeus with broad medial projection whose dorsal length is about half its width. Propodeum abrupt, reticulate with median dorsal longitudinal cell distinctly delimited posteriorly by two denticles. Whole body light yellow-brown. Body length 10.4 mm. FEMALE. Unknown.

Material examined. (8♂). Type material. Lectotype and three paralectotype of Mutilla testacea in MNHU from “Arabia deserta” [ Saudi Arabia]. Additional material. 3♂ from Yemen and 1♂ from Saudi Arabia ( Lelej & van Harten 2006) .

Distribution. Yemen, Saudi Arabia.

Remarks. Francisco-Javier Suárez unpublished labelled the specimen in MNHU with Klug's “ testacea Kl. ” label as the lectotype. Since no validly published lectotype designation has yet been made, I hereby designate the specimen so labelled by Suárez as the lectotype. My designation of the holotype of this species was wrong ( Lelej & van Harten 2006).