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Issue: Vol. 4067 No. 1: 20 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.1.8
Page range: 95–100
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski, 1885 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Saudi Arabia

King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O.BOX 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Hymenoptera Velvet ants Dasylabrinae new species Saudi Arabia Najd region

Abstract

A new species, Tricholabiodes aldryhimi Soliman, sp. nov., with a posteromesal bifurcal sessile process on the third metasomal sternum is described and illustrated from Najd Region, Saudi Arabia. The new species looks like T. brothersi Lelej, 2010 in having a bifurcal process on S3 but differs from it mainly in colour and the shape of the genitalia.

 

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