Mymar taprobanicum Ward, 1875

Bin Zeya, Shahid, Tarique Anwar, Prince, Ahmad, Zubair, A. Ghramh, Hamed, Rehman Khan, Farmanur & S. Khan, Farhat, 2022, The family Mymaridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - II: new records, and description of a new species of Erythmelus Enock, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (4), pp. 527-539 : 532

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.8.4.527
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F706D239-53DC-4F1D-B992-F34D136DF094
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17023193
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C27EFC41-FFBC-FF90-FFF9-F9155C73F7AC
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Mymar taprobanicum Ward, 1875
status

Treatment

Mymar taprobanicum Ward, 1875 View in CoL ( Fig. 4B)

Material examined. 3♀♀ (on same slide, ZDAMU), KSA: AL-QASSIM: Bukeriyah , 24.xi.2018, coll. F. R. Khan ; 1♀ (on slide, ZDAMU), ASIR: Abha, King Khalid University Campus , vi.2012, coll. Zubair Ahmad ; 3♀♀ (on slides, ZDAMU), AL-BAHA: Al-Qunfudhah , 1.iv.2011, Malaise trap, coll. S. Qahtani.

Diagnosis. This is apparently a highly variable species, and is distributed in almost all the zoogeographical realms. Its main diagnostic features are: funicle F3‒F5 less than 3× as long as broad individually; fore wing blade with apical dark patch covering less than half length of wing expansion; hind wing filamentous; ovipositor 0.7‒0.8× mesotibia and 0.6‒0.7× metatibia ( Annecke, 1961; Hayat et al., 2008; Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy, 2001; Amer et al., 2016).

Distribution. Worldwide. Saudi Arabia ( new record).