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The genus Apterogyna in Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species and a new record (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae)

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The genus Apterogyna Latreille, 1809 is reviewed from Saudi Arabia based on specimens collected from Rawdhat Farshet Sheaal (Al-Aflag), Rawdhat Al-Harmalyiah (Al-Quwayiyah), Ibex Reserve National Park (Hutet Beni Tamem) and Shada Al-Ala Mountain (Al-Baha). Two Apterogyna species were previously recorded from Saudi Arabia: A. mateui Giner Marí, 1945 and A. olivieri Latreille, 1809. A new species, A. shadaensis Soliman & Gadallah sp. n. (Al-Baha) is described and illustrated and a new record, A. similis Soliman & Gadallah, 2015 (Al-Aflag) is discovered. An illustrated key of four Saudi Arabian species of Apterogyna is given.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by NSTIP strategic technologies programs, project number (12-ENV2825-02) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The authors thank Mahmoud S. Abdel-Dayem, Ashraf M. EL-Torky and Ali A. Elgharbawy for helping in collecting the specimens.

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  1. King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O.BOX 2460, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed Mostafa Soliman & Hathal Mohammed Al Dhafer

  2. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, P.O. Box 11884, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

    Ahmed Mostafa Soliman

  3. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Neveen Samy Gadallah

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Soliman, A.M., Gadallah, N.S. & Dhafer, H.M.A. The genus Apterogyna in Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species and a new record (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae). Biologia 70, 1520–1527 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0181

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