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Issue: Vol. 5100 No. 2: 18 Feb. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-02-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.8
Page range: 287-295
Abstract views: 357
PDF downloaded: 177

Description of a new species of Odontochrydium Brauns (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) from the Arabian Peninsula

Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. BOX 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, P.O. Box 11884, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt
Université de Mons, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Place du parc 20, 7000 Mons, Belgium.
Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. BOX 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Hymenoptera Afrotropical male genitalia new species Oman Saudi Arabia Yemen

Abstract

Odontochrydium arabicum sp. nov., a new chrysidid species from Oman, southwestern Saudi Arabia, and Yemen is described, illustrated and compared with the African species, O. bicristatum Rosa from Kenya.

 

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