Liris maidli ( Arnold, 1929 )

Gadallah, Neveen S., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2021, New data on the crabronid fauna of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Spheciformes): Crabronidae) from Jazan Province, with the description of three new species and the hitherto unknown male of Miscophus chrysis Kohl, 1894, Journal of Natural History 55 (27 - 28), pp. 1697-1748 : 1705

Liris maidli ( Arnold, 1929)

( Figure 4 a-g) Notogonidea maidli Arnold, 1929: 397 . Substitute name for Notogonia minima Maidl, 1924 .

Diagnosis

Body (including antennae and legs) entirely black; fore wing without transverse infumated band ( Figure 4 (e)); apical margin of clypeus shiny dark reddish brown, conspicuously arched ( Figure 4 (b)); scape with sharp longitudinal carina along its whole ventral surface ( Figure 4 (b)), flagellomeres distinctly longer than wide; mesoscutum very finely rugose, with dense fine silvery pubescence along its anterolateral half ( Figure 4 (a)); propodeum distinctly elongate ( Figure 4 (d)), dull, finely coriaceous, with short silvery pubescence laterally on dorsal upper surface, posterior surface with a conspicuous, relatively wide median sulcus, coarsely transversely striated, and clothed with dense silvery pubescence; mesopleuron and metapleuron densely finely coriaceous throughout hardly visible because of dense pubescence ( Figure 4 (c)); gaster with inconspicuous broad, incomplete bands of silvery pubescence on posterior margins of T1-3, hardly visible on T4 ( Figure 4 (f)); S1 with longitudinal carina postero-medially.

Figures

Figure 4. Liris maidli (Arnold) (male): (a) Dorsal view of head and thorax; (b) Frontal view of head; (c) Latero-ventral view of head and thorax; (d) Dorsal view of thorax (excluding pronotum); (e) Fore wing; (f) Dorsal view of gaster; (g) Last gastral terga.