Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Author
Hayat, Mohammad
Author
Ahmad, Zubair
Author
Khan, Farmanur Rehman
text
Zootaxa
2014
3793
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journal article
36865
10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.1
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1175-5326
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Prochiloneurus aegyptiacus
(Mercet)
Achrysopophagus aegyptiacus
Mercet, 1929
: 360
–361, ♀.
Egypt
.
Mercet, 1931
: 224
–228,
A. aegyptiacus
again described as a new species.
Compere, 1938
: 334
–337, ♀.
Prochiloneurus aegyptiacus
(Mercet)
:
Viggiani, 1970
: 67
, notes, figure.
Material examined.
KSA
: AL-BAHA: Qunfudah,
vi.2012
, (MT), Coll. Z. Ahmad (1 ♀) (
ZDAMU
).
Comments.
The above listed specimen from
Saudi
Arabia
is identified as
P. aegyptiacus
on the basis of the original description and figure given by
Mercet (1929)
, especially for having the apical hyaline band of the fore wing very narrow, and dark brown flagellum. That the colour of the funicle segments is variable in this species was shown by
Compere (1938)
,
Viggiani (1970: fig. 2)
and by
Hayat (1981
,
2006
: fig. 439). However, the figure of the fore wing given by
Compere (1938: fig. 9)
shows the apical hyaline band broader, nearly as in
P. javanicus
(Ferrière)
. This species is newly recorded from
Saudi
Arabia
.