Xanthocanace hamifer Munari, 2008

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Xanthocanace hamifer Munari, 2008b: 40 [United Arab Emirates. Qurrayah; HT ♂, NMWC].

Distribution. Afrotropical: United Arab Emirates.

Remarks. A very distinctive species, especially in the structure of the male terminalia. Externally, it is strongly similar to X. zeylanica Delfinado, 1975, in particular for the thinly microtomentose, subshiny mesonotum. However, it consistently differs from Delfinado’s species mainly by the yellowish face, the proximal segments of the arista noticeably elongated and thickened, sausage-shaped, reddish brown (distal segment very thin and pale, hairlike), and for having a very peculiar surstylus, which shows a long, subapical, hooked process in both lateral and posterior views (figs. 4‒5).