Erythmelus ( Parallelaptera ) rex ( Girault, 1911 )

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
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17023187
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scientific name	Erythmelus ( Parallelaptera ) rex ( Girault, 1911 )
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Erythmelus ( Parallelaptera) rex ( Girault, 1911) View in CoL ( Fig. 3)

Material examined. 1♀ on slide under 4 coverslips, slide No. MYM.604, ZDAMU), SAUDI ARABIA: AL-QASSIM: Bukeriyah , 24.xi.2018, coll. F. R. Khan .

Diagnosis. Body largely dark brown except gaster in basal third pale yellow. Head almost quadrate. Antenna with scape 5.3× as long as broad; pedicel longer than all funicular segments individually except F5; F1 the shortest; F5 the longest slightly longer than the combined length of F3 and F4; clava 4× as long as broad, slightly longer than F4–F5, with 5 mps ( Fig. 3A). Fore wing disc is almost bare, with a few microtrichia in middle ( Fig. 3B). Metasoma as long as mesosoma; ovipositor with narrow basal loop, 1.3× as long as metatibia ( Fig. 3C) ( Triapitsyn, 2003; Triapitsyn et al., 2007; Hu & Triapitsyn, 2013).

Distribution. Worldwide. Saudi Arabia ( new record).