The genera Philanthus Fabricius, 1790 and Philanthinus de Beaumont, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) in Egypt, with a new record and the description of a new species Author Malash, Alyaa A. 0000-0001-6053-0693 https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6053 - 0693 Author Edmardash, Yusuf A. 0000-0002-3365-0822 https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3365 - 0822 Author Gadallah, Neveen S. 0000-0002-4381-9599 https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4381 - 9599 text Zootaxa 2023 2023-03-01 5249 2 151 189 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.1 1175-5326 7687292 52C66599-6FC8-4A2D-BEA4-8D1CAC33EEE6 Philanthus rutilus Spinola, 1839 Figs 13A–C , 14A–C . Philanthus rutilus Spinola, 1839: 488 , ♀ , ♁. Diagnosis. Body length: 12.4 mm (female); 12.5 mm (male). Body relatively large, with body in female predominantly black, with tegula, scutellum, posterior margins of T 3–5 and legs ferruginous; clypeus and lower face yellow not reaching middle ocellus ( Figs 13A , 14A ). Male with clypeus and face whitish, whitish extending to middle ocellus; thorax entirely black (tegula yellow), gaster with T 1 ferruginous, while T 2 and T 3 yellow, with intersegments and base of T 1 black; T 4 &T 5 almost black (with very thin, hardly seen yellow streaks postero-laterally), F3–11 black; face and clypeus ivory white ( Figs 13B , 14B, C ). Face and clypeus with dense, fine and long pilosity ( Fig. 14A–C ), male clypeal moustache dense, ending very close to each other but not, or hardly joining medially ( Fig. 14B ); malar space insignificant ( Fig. 14C ); mandible coarsely longitudinally ridged ( Fig. 14A ); thorax with dense pilosity but shorter than on head ( Fig. 14C ); thoracic sterna with dense and longer fine pilosity; upper mesopleuron (mesepimeron) densely punctate, sculpture on lower mesopleuron (mesepisternum) greatly masked by long and dense pilosity ( Fig. 14C ); propodeum with median, somewhat broad median groove, lateral surface shiny but with some points ( Fig. 13C ). Material examined: 1♁, Wadi Al Awsag , 16.12.1930 , det. Mochi ( PPDD ) ; 1♁, Mataria , 1.iv.1917 ( AUCE ) ; 1♁, Wadi Morrah , 7.iv.1925 ( AUCE ) ; 1♁, Kafr Hakim , 20.iii.1926 ( AUCE ) ; 1♁, Kafr Farouk , 12.ii.1929 ( AUCE ) ; 1♀ , Pyramids , 4.iii.1931 ( AUCE ) ; 1♁, Kafr Gammus , 17.ii.1935 ( AUCE ) ; 2♁, El Gabal El Asfar , 7.ii.1937 ( AUCE ) ; 3♁, 1♀ , Kafr Farouk , 26.ii.1939 ( AUCE ) ; 1♁, Kafr Farouk , 20.ii.1939 ( AUCE ) Previous Egyptian Records: No specific locality ( Spinola 1839 , 1843 as P. byssinus ; Dalla Torre 1897 ; Mellor 1928 as P. rutilans ; Mochi 1939 ; de Beaumont 1949 , 1956 , 1960 , 1961 all as P. rutilus rutilus ; Bohart & Menke 1976 as P. rutilus rutilus ), near Giza (Pyramids) (A. Costa 1875 ), Maadi ( Storey 1916 as P. rutilans ), El Gabal El Asfar, Kafr Farouk ( Honoré 1942 ; Roche 2007 ), Abu Rawash, Ameriah, Dahshour, El Marg, Wadi Awsag ( Gadallah 1996 as P. rutilus rutilus ), Gebel Elba ( Gadallah 1996 ; Dollfuss 2017 ), Beni Yussef ( Roche 2007 ). Extralimital distribution: Algeria , Chad , Israel-Palestine, Libya , Mauritania , Morocco , Spain , United Arab Emirates , Yemen . Remarks. The characters of our specimens agree with the North African specimens of de Beaumont (1949: 178 , couplet 3), and with the Arabian specimens of Guichard (1994: 208 , couplet 2).