Synnevrus arabicus (Gadallah & Edmardash, 2023), 2025

Schmid-Egger, Christian & Al-Jahdhami, Ali A., 2025, Nyssonini of the Arabian Peninsula with description of six new species (Hymenoptera, Spheciformes, Bembicidae), Zootaxa 5696 (2), pp. 247-259 : 255

Synnevrus arabicus (Gadallah & Edmardash, 2023) , comb. nov.

(Fig, 21, 36).

Nysson arabicus Gadallah and Edmardash in Abu el-Ghiet, Gadallah, Gasib, Al-Fifi, and Edmardash, 2023:155, ♂. Holotype: ♂, Saudi Arabia: Sala Mountain: Abdul Rahman Al Jabri farm at 17°04'10.5''N 43°07'43.3''E ( Efflatoun Bey collection, Entomology Department , Cairo University , Giza, Egypt (depository not given in the original description, taken from Pulawski , 2025).

Remark: The species was described in Nysson , but belongs clearly to Synnevrus , which is restored from synonymy here. See introduction for details.

Recognition: The male of Synnevrus arabicus can be recognized by the key characters, mainly by the colour pattern. It is the only Arabian species of the genus with a black mesosoma (with some red only) and with yellow spots or bands on T1-5.

Distribution: Only known from the type area in the Jazan Province in Saudi Arabia ( Fig. 36 ).

Figures

FIGURES 33–36. Collecting localities. 33. Brachystegus nemkovi. B. samadashanensis, B. schneideri. 34. Synnevrus barrei, Synnevrus mekkahensis, Nysson woodi. 35. Synnevrus ohli. 36. Nysson waleedi, Synnevrus arabicus. Maps were created with https://www.simplemappr.net.