Macroocula Panfilov, 1954

Soliman, Ahmed M., Gadallah, Neveen S. & Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed Al, 2018, An illustrated key to the Saudi Arabian species of the genus Macroocula Panfilov, 1954, with the description of a new species and the previously unknown female of M. andreai Pagliano (Hymenoptera, Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae), ZooKeys 742, pp. 35-56 : 36-41

Genus Macroocula Panfilov, 1954

Macroocula Panfilov, 1954: 149, type species: Apterogyna morawitzi Radoskowski, 1888, by original designation.

Doryleika Argaman, 1994: 46, type species: Doryleika mahunkai Argaman, 1994, by original designation. Junior subjective synonym of Macroocula Panfilov, 1954 by Pagliano 2002: 125.

Diagnosis.

Eyes bulged, hemispherical, with its diameter about 4 × distance between inner eye margin and antennal tubercle in male, and equal to distance between inner eye margin and antennal tubercle in female; distance between eye and occipital carina at most equal to eye diameter in female and by less than its own diameter in male; ocelli larger than or at least as large as flagellar diameter; hind trochanter without protuberance as that of mid trochanter in most Macroocula species, except for few Egyptian and Arabian species; posterior margin of metasomal tergites without fringe of setae, except for the Arabian species M. riyadha ( Pagliano 2002, 2008, Gadallah et al. 2014, 2015, Soliman et al. 2016).

Key to the species of the genus Macroocula in SA (except M. mahunkai )

List of newly described species