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Issue: Vol. 4915 No. 2: 21 Jan. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-01-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.7
Page range: 273–281
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 8

The genus Lyroda Say, 1837 in Africa and Arabian Peninsula with description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

Fischerstr.1, 10317 Berlin, Germany.
Ali Abdallah Ali AL JAHDHAMI, Al-Mudhaibi, Samad Ashan, P.O. 121 Samad Ashan 423, Oman.
Hymenoptera Crabronidae Lyroda Africa Arabia new species distribution

Abstract

The genus Lyroda Say, 1837 is reviewed in Africa and Arabia. Lyroda centralafricana Schmid-Egger & Al-Jahdhami, sp. nov. is described from Central African Republic and Zambia from both sexes; the holotype is a male. Lyroda salalah Schmid-Egger & Al-Jahdhami, sp. nov. is described from Oman in both sexes; the holotype is a female. The unknown male of L. aethiopica is described for the first time. A key to Lyroda species from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula is given.

 

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