Bembecinus acanthomerus (MORICE, 1911)

Key to the females of the Bembecinus acanthomerus View in CoL species group

The female of B. dentipes is unknown. The identification of females is more difficult because females of other species groups also may share some of the key characters with the B. acanthomerus species group. See also SCHMID- EGGER (2004) for identification.

1 Distribution: northwest and west Africa..............................................................................2

- Geographic distribution. Asia..............................................................................................4

2 Mesopleuron and propodeum black. Bands of T3-4 short, less than half tergal width. T5-6 black (fig. 26). Clypeal base black. Algeria................. B. fertoni (HANDLIRSCH, 1908) View in CoL

- Mesopleuron and propodeum with yellow spot (in B. acanthomerus View in CoL from Tunisia mesopleuron black). T3-5 with long bands, reaching tergal margin or ending nearby. T6 often with yellow spot. Clypeus all yellow. ...................................................................3

3 Spot on propodeum orange-yellow (fig. 4). Band near tegula short, not reaching pronotum. Northwest Africa............................................. B. acanthomerus (MORICE, 1911) View in CoL

- Spot on propodeum yellow. Band near tegula long and large, reaching pronotum (fig. 48). Mali, Mauritania............................................................................ B. maliensis nov.sp. 4 Space above clypeus black (fig. 68). [T6 with large yellow spot.] Turkey, Armenia............ ................................................................................................... B. nemrutdagiensis nov.sp.

- Space above clypeus partly or all yellow. ...........................................................................5

5 T1 with red zone between black base and apical yellow band, extension variable (figs 8, 9). Propodeum laterally with large yellowish-red spot. [Hindfemur orange red, at most with some red basally.] Israel..................................................... B. aravaensis nov.sp.

- T1 black and yellow ............................................................................................................6

6 Propodeum laterally and mesopleuron with large yellow spots. Spots of scutellum connected (fig. 31). 11 mm. [T6 black]. Turkey.......................... B. henseni SCHMID-EGGER View in CoL

- Propodeum laterally and mesopleuron black. Spots of scutellum separated from each other, smaller than yellow space between ...........................................................................7

7 Space above clypeus medially black (fig. 36). T6 with small yellow spots (fig. 35). [Hindfemur in greater part black, with some red at innerside. Bands of T1-5 approximately 0,3x as wide as length of tergite, measured laterally]. UAE, Oman.............. ...................................................................................................... B. jebelhafitensis nov.sp.

- Space above clypeus all yellow (fig. 15). T6 with large yellow spots.]Females from southern Iran: Hindfemur orange-reddish, apex yellow, in some specimens all yellow below. Bands of T1-5 approximately 0,5x as wide as length of tergite. Specimens from Turkmenistan have hindfemur black and yellow, and tergal bands are narrowver]. Iran, Turkmenistan........................................................................................ B. bamensis nov.sp.