Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011

Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Gadallah, Neveen S., Gasib, Abdulmajeed M., Al-Fifi, Zarrag I. A. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2023, Further addition to the crabronid fauna of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Spheciformes): Crabronidae), with new genera and species records, and the description of two new species, Zootaxa 5319 (2), pp. 151-177 : 172-175

Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011

Fig. 16A–G

Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011: 610 , ♀, ♁.

Diagnosis. Body (including antennae and legs) entirely black ( Fig. 16A ); frontal shield in female and male relatively long, pointed, a short distance above antennal bases, rounded basally and angulate apico-laterally, coarsely rugose in female ( Fig. 16B ), densely punctate in male ( Fig. 16C ), with an area of silvery pubescence extending from middle ocellus but not reaching ventral end of shield ( Fig. 16B, C ); last antennal segment in male relatively long, narrowly rounded apically, about as long as preceding three antennal segments or slightly shorter ( Fig. 16G ); scutum with dense superficial punctures ( Fig. 16D ), mesopleuron densely punctate, with interspaces ( Fig. 16E ); metapleuron finely transversely striate ( Fig. 16E ); dorsal enclosure of propodeum coarsely rugose, with dense, upturned fine pale setae posteriorly ( Fig. 16D ); first gastral segment distinctly long in both sexes ( Fig. 16F ); S 8 of male completely as in Antropov (2011: 615, fig. 10).

Material examined: 2♀, 1♁, Farasan, Abdulmajeed farm [16 Q 42.07970’N; 42 Q 08.5781’E], 23–30.ix.2022; 1♀, Farasan (Abdulmajeed Farm), 30.ix–7x.2022.

Previous Saudi Arabian records: Maha’il ( Antropov 2011), Jazan ( Gadallah et al. 2021).

Distribution: Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

Comments. Characters of this species fully agree with Antropov’s key (2001: 616, couplet 3), as well as his diagnosis (2011: 610).

Figures

FIGURE 16. Trypoxylon splendidum Antropov, 2011: A, lateral habitus (♀); B, frontal view of head (♀); C, frontal view of head (♁); D, dorsal view of thorax (♀); E, lateral view of thorax (♀); F, dorsal view of gaster (♀); G, antenna (♁).