Dolichurus arabicus Ohl, 2011

Dolichurus arabicus Ohl, 2011 View in CoL

( Figure 4 View Figure 4 (a–d))

Dolichurus arabicus Ohl, 2011: 478 View in CoL , ♂, ♀. Holotype ♂, United Arab Emirates: al-Ajban, ( ZMB) . Paratypes: Oman .

Diagnosis

Male 4.5–6.0 mm, female longer than male ( 6.2–8.9 mm). Body almost black (apical half of T3 and T4–6 red in female), most of the mandible, anterior margin of the frontal platform (male, Figure 4 View Figure 4 (a,b)) and anterior clypeal margin (female) orange-yellow; pronotal tubercles (male) white ( Figure 4 View Figure 4 (c)); antenna and tarsi of male pale brown, the former darker apically ( Figure 4 View Figure 4 (a)), dark brown in female. Vertex and frons densely punctate (punctures generally less than one diameter apart) in male ( Figure 4 View Figure 4 (b)); lower mesopleuron irregularly sparsely punctate, with interspaces shiny in female; frons (female) densely punctato-rugose throughout and T1–3 laterally with patches of dense, coarse punctures. Fore wing with three SMCs ( Figure 4 View Figure 4 (d)).

Material examined: Saudi Arabia

2 ♂, Abha, Raydah, Alt . 1772 m and 1614 m, MT, 8 May 2015 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [ KSMA]; 1 ♂, Al-Baha, Shada Al-Ala, Alt . 1611 m, MT, 15 February 2014 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [ KSMA]; 1♂, Al-Baha, Thee Ain, Alt . 900 m, SW, 14 April 2016 (leg. Ahmed M. Soliman) [ KSMA]; 1 ♂, Abha, Raydah, Alt . 2761 m, MT, 8 May 2015 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) [ EFC] .

Distribution

UAE, Oman ( Ohl 2011), Saudi Arabia ( new record).

Remark

Female diagnostic characters based on Ohl (2011).