Aphaniosoma brunnipes Ebejer, 1996

Fig. 11

Material examined

Paratype

OMAN • 1 ♂; Muscat, Azaiba; 9 Feb. 1989; M.J. Ebejer leg.; NMWC.

Remarks

This is one of a very few species with extensively darkened legs (Fig. 11A). It is known only from the type series. Both sexes have a dark band across the frons, dark brown basal flagellomere and brown palpus. The similar species A. nigripes Ebejer, 2016 from Morocco has a yellow palpus, yellow basal flagellomere in the male, a slender postgonite and a differently shaped sternite 6 (Ebejer 2016: 226, figs 4–6). Aphaniosoma captiosum sp. nov. has the ventro-lateral margin of tergite 6 similar to that in A. nigripes; it differs from both species in the postgonite, which is thicker and ends in a white seta-like tip (Fig. 13A), and in the shape of sternites 5 and 6 (Fig. 14C).

Distribution

Oman (Ebejer 1996).