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Named after the collector of the
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Two female
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, Smithsonian Archives plate, and photographs of EFC specimen) A small species readily identified (in female at least) by the unique abdominal pattern, tergite dark with whitish-grey dusted longitudinal stripe medially and laterally, the latter just visible dorsally at least on basal tergites.
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MEASUREMENTS. Body length:
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<paragraph id="66293687FFC94C6AFF573C11D103E123" blockId="113.[187,1400,265,573]" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">THORAX. Dark ground colour obscured by dense whitish dust conferring its overall greyish-white appearance. Mesonotum with relatively poorly defined darker paramedian vittae from anterior slope to rear third, acrostichal grey stripe about twice as wide as darker paramedian vittae. Antehumeral vittae are less well defined but similar colour, interrupted at thoracic suture, rather narrow and parallel sided both anterior to and behind thoracic suture. Mesonotal dusting faintly but distinctly brownish on disc, the EFC specimens shows a small, round dark spot between wing base and antehumeral vittae. Mesonotum covered with short, sparse, pale yellowish hairs arising from fine punctures. Scutellum uniformly grey as mesonotum, the hairs rather longer pale yellowish. Dusting on pleura rather thinner and so a little darker than on mesonotum, anepisternum with short, erect, soft, glistening whitish hairs.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="66293687FFC94C6AFF573F7DD1A3E1F7" blockId="113.[189,1400,612,744]" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">WING. Membrane hyaline, the veins pale yellow-brown. Crossvein r-m at or before basal third of the discal cell, m-m cross-vein not straight, feebly bent (looks almost straight in EFC specimen). Anal cell with relatively long petiole, approximately equalling r-m. Anal lobe broad with conspicuously convex margin wider than anal cell. Squamae with a pale yellow margin and short whitish fringe.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="66293687FFC94C6AFF573E08D05EE036" blockId="113.[189,1317,783,810]" box="[189,1317,783,810]" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">HALTERE. Very pale ivory yellow to light ochraceous-buff, base of stem obscure brownish-black.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="66293687FFC94C6AFF573E49D141E0AE" blockId="113.[187,1399,848,945]" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">LEGS. Coxae blackish, dusted as pleura. Femora, tibia and tarsi, very dark reddish-brown, almost blackish with tips of femora and narrow bases yellowish-red, tips of tibia and extreme base of basitarsi brownishred. Legs covered with minute, adpressed, sparse and glistening white hairs.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="66293687FFC94C6AFF573EC1D65CE7BC" blockId="113.[187,1401,984,1187]" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">ABDOMEN. Dull brownish-black with somewhat dense white dusting along a fairly broad mid-dorsal longitudinal stripe and laterally extending onto recurved sides of tergites. Tergite one more generally grey dusted, darker areas only indicated laterally. Each tergite with well demarcated but narrow, very pale cream apical margins. Sternites similar with light cream-buff apical margins. Tergites and sternites covered with short, not dense, very pale yellowish hairs, appearing longer and more conspicuous laterally and towards the tip of the abdomen (EFC specimen).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="66293687FFC94C6AFF5739D2D188E7FB" blockId="113.[189,1267,1226,1253]" box="[189,1267,1226,1253]" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">GENITALIA. Ovipositor (apical sternite?) pale yellowish with short erect pale yellowish hairs.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="54E2EA95FFC94C6AFF573813D454E63A" bold="true" box="[189,303,1291,1317]" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">Remarks</emphasis>
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keyed this species next to
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<emphasis id="54E2EA95FFC94C6AFD303822D6F8E64B" box="[730,899,1338,1364]" italics="true" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">A. minusculus</emphasis>
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which can be assigned to
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<emphasis id="54E2EA95FFC94C6AFB393822D04DE64B" box="[1235,1334,1338,1364]" italics="true" pageId="113" pageNumber="114">Apolysis</emphasis>
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with confidence. Oddly,
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makes no mention in his key or the diagnosis section of the
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description of the unique abdominal pattern that distinguishes this species from all other
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In his
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description he describes this feature, but does not suggest it is variable, and it is quite obvious in the photographs of the EFC specimen and in the Smithsonian archives plate. Although this is a tiny species it has the general appearance of
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, notably wing venation, the short robust postpedicel and the illustrations in
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: pl. 21 fig. 355) which shows no sign of the arista diagnostic of
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. Professor Magdi El-Hawagry has confirmed that it lacks the apical arista of Apolysini and belongs in
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.
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It is impossible to be confident of the affinities of this species without examination of the genitalia, including those of the unknown male. The unique abdominal pattern suggests that it could be a taxonomically isolated species, but almost certainly within
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(Bir Abrag, between Km-Ombo and Bir Shalatein, Red Sea Coast and Wadi Ibib
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SE of latter locality).
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