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C87887F0DB0CFF86FE83F96B086EFA41.text	C87887F0DB0CFF86FE83F96B086EFA41.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Asmisapyga Kurzenko 1994	<div><p>Genus Asmisapyga Kurzenko in Kurzenko &amp; Gusenleitner, 1994</p><p>Asmisapyga Kurzenko, 1994 in Kurzenko &amp; Gusenleitner, 1994: 586. Type species: Asmisapyga Kurzenko, 1994, by original designation.</p><p>HISTORY</p><p>Description</p><p>Female (Figures 1‒3). Body length (excluding sting): 7.5‒7.8 mm.</p><p>Head. Clypeus 1.30‒1.38× as wide as its middle length, narrowly notched at apex, with two small medially, with close setigerous deep punctures, punctures confluent longitudinally (Figure 1C, D densely, closely deeply punctate (becoming sparser just behind middle ocellus to vertex) (Figure mandible tridendate apically, teeth subequal, sharply pointed at apices (Figure 1D); antenna shorter than body (Figure 1A), F9 about as long as wide, last flagellomere 1.35× as long as wide (</p><p>HISTORY</p><p>HISTORY</p><p>Metasoma. T 1‒4 densely punctate, punctures more pronounced along the whitish bands on T 3 (Figure 3B); T 5 and T 6 sparsely punctate (Figure 3B); S 1‑3 with dense confluent punctures, becoming sparser on rest of sternites (Figure 3C).</p><p>Colouration. Generally black, with the following parts yellow: spot inside eye emargination (Figure apico-lateral part of clypeus (Figure 1D); a transverse stripe between antennal toruli (Figure 1C), tum antero-laterally (Figure 2A, B); a broad whitish band on apex of T 3 (constricted medially) (narrower and constricted medially), a very small (indistinct) spot postero-laterally on T 5 (Figure a broad band on S 3 posteriorly (interrupted posteriorly), four spots preapically on S 4 (absent in</p><p>HISTORY femora dark brown to black, remaining parts red (Figure 1B); wings pale brown, with radial cell veins brown (except veins C, SC+R, M+Cu, RS, 2 r, and stigma are deep dark brown) (Figure 3A)</p><p>Male (Figures 4‒6). Body length: 6.8 mm.</p><p>Resembles the female except for the presence of a broad yellow band on S 4 posteriorly, which is interrupted medially (Figure 6C) (in some female specimens, four small, rounded spots can be seen posterior margin of S 4 (Figure 3C)); F2‒11 each with a thin lateral carina; fore and hind wings less dark female (Figure 6A).</p><p>Male genitalia (Figure 10A, B). Genital capsule 1.2× as long as wide; with a well-developed basal aedeagus completely, but narrowly, separated medially; pennis valve (PV) with three saw-like short externally; parameres (P) in dorsal aspect flattened, with outer margins straight, parallel, meeting above in middle, then narrowly separated ventrally, acutely pointed postero-laterally; parameral wide and flat, narrowly rounded at apex, sparsely setose; cuspis (Cu) well-separated from each other each in the form of a broad rounded sac apically, densely covered with fine pale setae mainly on the hook-like structure above, directed towards each other; digitus slender, finger-like, distinctly shorter and longer than Cu and PV, with fine pale setae.</p><p>Material examined</p><p>3♀♀, Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, Thadiq, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=46.029552&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.269327" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 46.029552/lat 25.269327)">Shoaib Safrat Park</a> [25.269328 N, 46.029551E, Alt. 731 m], 30 .</p><p>SW, leg . Ahmed M . Soliman [KSMA]; 1♂, same data as previous but different for collection date, 9 . [KSMA].</p><p>Distribution</p><p>Egypt (Gusenleitner 1997), Israel, United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2010), Morocco (Gusenleitner Saudi Arabia (new record).</p><p>Comments</p><p>Our female specimens agree well with Gusenleitner’s description of the Moroccan females (</p><p>1996, p. 30) except for the following: the colour pattern of the body is white, unlike the yellow Moroccan specimens; the presence of small, rounded spots on posterolateral sides of T 5 (Figure 3B),</p><p>spots along the posterior margin of S 4 in some female specimens (Figure 3C) (absent in Moroccan</p><p>They also resemble the female specimen of the United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2010, p. 480),</p><p>the following: clypeus predominately black, with two large yellow red markings apico-laterally (Figure UAE specimen, clypeus predominantly yellow, with large black spot medially); T 2 entirely black (Figure UAE specimen T 2 with a lateral spot). In our male, pronotum with anterior band of yellow, widely medially (Figure 6B) (in UAE male, pronotum with a large pale band); T 2 entirely black (Figure 6B) male, T 2 with lateral spots); head and pronotum with dense punctures, with small interspaces punctures (Figure 4C) (in UEA male, punctures sparser, with large shiny interspaces).</p><p>The male specimen collected during the present study shows a teratology deformation on pronotum</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C87887F0DB0CFF86FE83F96B086EFA41	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gadallah, Neveen S.;Soliman, Ahmed M.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2025): First contribution to the sapygid wasps (Hymenoptera: Sapyginae) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the description species. Journal of Natural History 59 (33 - 36): 2235-2250, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2538600, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2538600
C87887F0DB05FF86FDB7F98F09E5F9D7.text	C87887F0DB05FF86FDB7F98F09E5F9D7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sapygina A. Costa 1887	<div><p>Genus Sapygina A. Costa, 1887</p><p>Sapygina A. Costa, 1887: 111, Type species: Sapyga decemguttata Jurine, 1807, by monotypy.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C87887F0DB05FF86FDB7F98F09E5F9D7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gadallah, Neveen S.;Soliman, Ahmed M.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2025): First contribution to the sapygid wasps (Hymenoptera: Sapyginae) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the description species. Journal of Natural History 59 (33 - 36): 2235-2250, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2538600, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2538600
C87887F0DB05FF80FE64F9050F82FC03.text	C87887F0DB05FF80FE64F9050F82FC03.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sapygina (Sapygella) saudica Soliman and Gadallah 2025	<div><p>Sapygina (Sapygella) saudica Soliman and Gadallah sp. n.</p><p>(Figures 7‒9, 10C, D)</p><p>Recognition</p><p>The holotype male of the new species agrees with S. swierstrae (Arnold) (Arnold 1929, p. 176) in having</p><p>HISTORY the male of S. swierstrae in having 3RSb as long as 3RSa and 3RSc combined (Figure 9A) (in S. swierstrae slightly longer than 3RSa and 3RSc combined); head densely punctate, punctures less than one claw, (C) dorsal view of metasoma, (D) ventral view of metasoma.</p><p>white and entire in front); the colour pattern is yellow (Figure 7A‒C) (in S. swierstrae, the colour creamy white). Comparing with S. swierstrae photos of female type in the waspweb (https://www. org/Pompiloidea/ Sapygidae / Sapygina /index.htm), S. saudica also differs in the extensive yellow markings mesosoma (Figure 8A) (in S. swiestrae, the white is greatly reduced on mesosoma); T 1 with long markings postero-laterally (Figure 9C) (in S. swierstrae, T 1 entirely black); mandible with apical tooth apically, moderately longer than preapical tooth (Figure 7D) (in S. swierstrae, apical tooth sharply conspicuously longer than preapical tooth); mesosomal dorsum distinctly convex in lateral view (</p><p>HISTORY and mesopleuron sparsely punctate, punctures 1‒2 diameters apart); vein 2 r-m of fore wing nearly medially (Figure 9A) (in S. swierstrae, 2 r-m distinctly angulate medially).</p><p>Head (Figures 7C‒E, 8A, B). In anterior view 1.1× as wide as high; frons with dense irregular foveolation, separated in some parts by a distance less than a foveolar diameter; clypeus concave</p><p>1.6× as wide as high, without median longitudinal carina, sparsely punctate, with slight emarginate medially and straight at base; clypeus separated from inner margin of eye by a distance equal to AOD space short, 0.38× as long as basal width of mandible; frontal shelf of frons moderately projecting, separated from basal margin of clypeus; POL 0.87× OOL; ocellar triangle obtuse, with base 1.6× as long lateral side; TFC absent; gena relatively broad, broader ventrally than dorsally, sparsely punctate; carina developed only laterally, in alignment of pronotal humeral angle (absent beyond ocelli reaching hypostomal carina); antenna densely covered with microsensilla, scape relatively long,</p><p>base and widened apically, pedicel short and globular, as long as wide; F1 2.0× as long as its apical slightly longer than F2, F2 1.45× as long as its width, F2‒11 with a fine lateral carina; F3‒9 about flagellar segment concave laterally, its lateral carina ending in a slightly pointed protrusion; tridentate, with the basal tooth distinctly large, conspicuously separated from mandibular apex,</p><p>a right angle with the subapical tooth; subapical tooth distinctly shorter than apical tooth, both of rounded apically, outer margin of mandible with fine long pale setae.</p><p>Mesosoma (Figures 8A‒C, 9A, B). Median length 1.6× as long as its widest part in dorsal view, and long as high in lateral view; pronotum short, 3.0× as wide as long, humeral angle right, with straight margin and concave posteriorly, pronotal lateral margin slightly shorter than mesoscutum (medially) (0.95×), shiny, with dense, deep punctures, becoming finer laterally; mesoscutum 1.6× as long, densely setigerous punctate, dull; notauli indistinct; scutellar suture linear, shallow; scutellum when seen in lateral view, without carina, shiny, punctate, with smaller dots between punctures;</p><p>short, 0.5× as long as scutellum, shiny, with fewer punctures; propodeum shiny, with irregularly punctures dorsally, rugose laterally; mesopleuron shiny, deeply punctate, punctures shallower yellow marking above; metapleuron dull, with dense fine punctures. Fore wing (Figure 9A) setose distinctly denser in radial cell; 1 m-cu received near to middle of the SMC2; SMC2 1.5× as wide as its anterior side of SMC3 about as long as posterior side; veins 1 r-m and 2 r-m meeting vein M nearly angle; 3RSb as long as 3RSa and 3RSc combined; vein 2 r-m nearly straight medially. Hind wing (</p><p>r-m straight, meeting vein M at right angle. Legs (Figures 8C, 9B). Coxae robust, ventral face of front densely setose apically, mid and hind coxae sparsely punctate, the latter without carina; hind basitarsus long as the following three tarsomeres combined; tarsal claws with a subapical short tooth, about long as apical tooth, rest of claw swollen ventrally.</p><p>Metasoma (Figures 7A, B, 9C, D). Coriaceous, with sparse fine punctures, dorsally and ventrally, smooth on either side of punctate longitudinal medial stripe; T 1 1.1× as long as its posterior margin,</p><p>and depressed anteriorly, gradually widened posteriorly, posterior margin sinuate; T 2 0.56× as long posterior width, longer than T 3 (1.17×), T 3‒5 are approximately equal in length; T 6 and T 7 medial longer than preceding tergites.</p><p>Male genitalia (Figure 10C, D). Aedeagus narrowly separated medially; PV with 9‒10 short spines nally; P in dorsal aspect somewhat convex, with outer margins distinctly convex, meeting together the middle, then narrowly separated ventrally, acute postero-laterally; PS slender, pointed apically,</p><p>with setae; Cu in the form of a broad rounded sac apically that are very close to each other, densely with fine pale setae mainly on the sac, with hook-like, contiguous structure above, directed towards other; digitus slender, but swollen to rounded apically, distinctly shorter than PS and slightly longer about as long as PV.</p><p>Colouration (Figures 7A‒D, 8A, B, 9C, D). Body black, without any red, the following parts pale clypeus basally and laterally (inverted U-shaped), inner eye emargination, scape largely dorsally, along posterior margin of eye, an inverted V-shaped area on frons just above antennal insertions, a</p><p>HISTORY above, a large marking area postero-laterally on T 1, most of T 2 except medially, T 3 with a sinuated posteriorly and extending laterally; T 4‑6 each with a sinuated (medially bi-emarginate) band</p><p>(wider on T 6), apical half of T 7. Wings hyaline, with brown vein, radial cell of fore wing slightly darker fore wing with stigma, veins 2 r, RS and M are deep dark brown. Legs dark, with all femora and hind externally with yellow strip.</p><p>Material examined</p><p>Holotype ♂, Saudi Arabia: Asir Abha, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=42.496037&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=18.050997" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 42.496037/lat 18.050997)">Wadi Dhila’</a> [18.050997 N, 42.496038E, Alt. 855 m], 30.VIII.</p><p>leg. Ahmed M. Soliman [KSMA].</p><p>Etymology</p><p>The new species is named in reference to the country (Saudi Arabia) where the specimen was collected</p><p>Distribution Saudi Arabia.</p><p>Comments</p><p>This is the first record of the genus Sapygina from the Arabian Peninsula, specifically from Saudi Arabia family Sapygidae was previously represented in the region by a single species, Asmisapyga Gusenleitner, 1996, reported from the United Arab Emirates (Schmid-Egger 2010).</p><p>The new species, S. saudica, is placed here in the subgenus Sapygella based on the presence of mandibular tooth that is distinctly larger than the preapical tooth, forming a right angle with it and clearly separated from the mandibular apex.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C87887F0DB05FF80FE64F9050F82FC03	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gadallah, Neveen S.;Soliman, Ahmed M.;Al Dhafer, Hathal M.	Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. (2025): First contribution to the sapygid wasps (Hymenoptera: Sapyginae) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the description species. Journal of Natural History 59 (33 - 36): 2235-2250, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2538600, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2538600
