taxonID	type	description	language	source
038287DA7830FFDEDAD84A2FFB1CFB87.taxon	description	(Figs 1 – 3)	en	Liston, Andrew, Noblecourt, Thierry (2024): A new species of Acantholyda (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae) from Lebanon, associated with Cedrus libani (Pinaceae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1): 113-119, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2024.009, URL: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.009
038287DA7830FFDEDAD84A2FFB1CFB87.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀ (DEI-GISHym 81501), Lebanon: Tannourine Cedar Reserve (34.21 ° N 35.93 ° E), 31.05.2016, Steffan Kyrk leg. Deposited in SDEI. PARATYPES: Lebanon, Tannourine Cedar Reserve: 1 ♀ (DEI-GISHym 81502), 03.06.2016, S. Kyrk leg.; 1 ♀ (DEI-GIS- Hym 81503), 03.06.2016, Nabil Nemer leg.; 1 J (DEI-GISHym 81504), 31.05.2016, N. Nemer leg. All deposited in SDEI.	en	Liston, Andrew, Noblecourt, Thierry (2024): A new species of Acantholyda (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae) from Lebanon, associated with Cedrus libani (Pinaceae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1): 113-119, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2024.009, URL: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.009
038287DA7830FFDEDAD84A2FFB1CFB87.taxon	description	Description. Female (Figs 1 – 2). Colour. Head largely yellow, indistinctly brown-tinged on the median postocellar area, part of the vertex, and the outer orbits (Figs 1 E, 2 B – C). A black patch surrounds the ocelli (Figs 1 A, E); a black fleck at top of eye (Fig. 2 C); inner occiput extensively black (Fig. 1 B). Tips of mandibles brownish (Fig. 1 E). Antenna black; tip of scape, more or less inner side of pedicel and base of antennomere 3 pale (Fig. 1 D). Thorax black, without metallic lustre (Fig. 2 D). Pale are pronotum, upper parts of propleura, tegulae and more or less interior of median mesoscutal lobe (Figs 2 A, D). Legs yellowish (Figs 1 A, B; 2 A). Black are coxae, trochanters, more or less trochantelli (Fig. 1 B), bases and larger part of upper surface of femora, extreme tip of metatibia [HT and DEI-GISHym 81503], sometimes continued as narrow streak along inner face [DEI-GISHym 81502], and more or less the tarsi. Wing membranes hyaline, apices darkened (Fig. 1 A). Veins including fore wing stigma dark, except for pale Sc and R (Fig. 1 A). Abdominal terga largely black, lateral margins pale (Figs 1 A, C). Terga 4 and 5 mainly black (Fig. 1 C; DEI-GISHym 81502) to extensively pale (Fig. 1 A) [HT and DEI-GISHym 81503]. Sterna from extensively dark to mostly pale (Fig. 1 B). Structure and vestiture. Head. Without occipital carina (Fig. 2 C). Punctation irregular and shallow, including clypeus; interspaces smooth and shiny (Figs 1 E; 2 B, C). Punctation densest around the ocelli and on the upper paraantennal fields; lowest part of paraantennal fields almost impunctate (Fig. 1 E). Pubescence on upper head (above level of antennal sockets) sparse, mostly slightly shorter than width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 2 B, C). Antenna (Fig. 1 D): 29 – 32 antennomeres (HT 32); ratios of lengths of antennomeres 1 – 5 as 10.0: 3.2: 10.2: 3.7: 3.5. Thorax. Setae on mesoscutum no longer than width of anterior ocellus, on mesoscutellum slightly longer. A median, longitudinal strip of punctures on lateral mesoscutal lobes; median mesoscutal lobe largely impunctate except for a few indistinct punctures on posterior edge; mesoscutellum in anterior half nearly impunctate, posterior half densely punctate (Fig. 2 D). Mesepisternum shallowly punctate, with shiny interspaces; setae up to 3.5 × as long as the width of anterior ocellus. Mesepimeron impunctate but finely sculptured, without setae. Protibia with 1 pre-apical spur. Fore wing cell C glabrous; cell Sc apically with very few, minute setae. Hind wing 2 A without stub (Fig. 1 A). Abdomen. Terga 1 – 3 slightly sculptured, especially laterally, but shiny; following terga nearly without sculpture (Fig. 2 E). Body length: 9.5 – 10.0 [HT 10.0] mm. Male (Fig 3). Characters as for female except for: Head (Figs 3 C – E) largely black. Pale (yellow-white) are most of clypeus apart from black upper lateral margins, mouthparts (but basal and apical palpomeres partly dark; mandibles brown-tipped), narrow margins of inner and outer orbit to about 0.75 × height of eye, a small spot at the top of the eye. Pubescence partly long: on upper head up to 2.5 × width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 3 D). 30 antennomeres. Ratios of lengths of antennomeres 1 – 5 as 10.0: 3.3: 10.1: 4.3: 4.0. Thorax (Figs 3 A, B) entirely black except for small part of pronotum next to spiracle. Pro- and mesofemur black except for tips; metafemur extensively black dorsally, pale ventrally. All tibiae black-streaked along inner side (more strongly than in female); streak widening towards apex. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum more extensively and strongly punctate than female; densely setose, longest setae 2.5 × as long as width of anterior ocellus. Abdominal terga black; lateral margins pale (Fig. 3 A). Sterna yellow with small median dark fleck on sterna 1 – 6 (Fig. 3 B). Subgenital plate apically truncate (Fig. 3 F). Body length: 8 mm.	en	Liston, Andrew, Noblecourt, Thierry (2024): A new species of Acantholyda (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae) from Lebanon, associated with Cedrus libani (Pinaceae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1): 113-119, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2024.009, URL: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.009
038287DA7830FFDEDAD84A2FFB1CFB87.taxon	diagnosis	Differential diagnosis. The main distinguishing character between Acantholyda and the closely related genus Cephalcia Panzer, 1802 is the presence of one or two pre-apical spines on the protibia of the former and the absence of pre-apical spines in the latter. Cephalcia tannourinensis Chevin, 2002, which also occurs in the cedar forests of Lebanon, and was previously the only pamphiliid species recorded in the country, is readily distinguished from A. nemeri sp. nov. by its completely black head (in both sexes). As far as we have determined, the combination of characters consisting of 1 pre-apical spur on protibia, missing occipital carina, and hind wing 2 A without stub is unique among the described Acantholyda species.	en	Liston, Andrew, Noblecourt, Thierry (2024): A new species of Acantholyda (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae) from Lebanon, associated with Cedrus libani (Pinaceae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1): 113-119, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2024.009, URL: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.009
038287DA7830FFDEDAD84A2FFB1CFB87.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species name honours Nabil Nemer, entomologist and curator of the Tannourine Cedar Nature Reserve, who collected part of the type series.	en	Liston, Andrew, Noblecourt, Thierry (2024): A new species of Acantholyda (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae) from Lebanon, associated with Cedrus libani (Pinaceae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1): 113-119, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2024.009, URL: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.009
038287DA7830FFDEDAD84A2FFB1CFB87.taxon	biology_ecology	Host plant. All the specimens were collected either “ on sight ” from branches of Cedrus libani A. Rich., or from herbaceous vegetation growing under C. libani. As no other tree species of the Pinaceae occur at the type locality (N. Nemer, personal communication), it is very likely that C. libani is the larval host.	en	Liston, Andrew, Noblecourt, Thierry (2024): A new species of Acantholyda (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae) from Lebanon, associated with Cedrus libani (Pinaceae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1): 113-119, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2024.009, URL: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.009
038287DA7830FFDEDAD84A2FFB1CFB87.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Lebanon (this paper).	en	Liston, Andrew, Noblecourt, Thierry (2024): A new species of Acantholyda (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae) from Lebanon, associated with Cedrus libani (Pinaceae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1): 113-119, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2024.009, URL: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.009
