Liris maidli

Liris maidli (Arnold, 1929) (Figure 4 a-g) Notogonidea maidli Arnold, 1929: 397. Substitute name for Notogonia minima Maidl, 1924. Diagnosis Body (including antennae and legs) entirely black; fore wing without transverse infumated band (Figure 4 (e)); apical margin of clypeus shiny dark reddish brown, conspicuously arched (Figure 4 (b)); scape with sharp longitudinal carina along its whole ventral surface (Figure 4 (b)), flagellomeres distinctly longer than wide; mesoscutum very finely rugose, with dense fine silvery pubescence along its anterolateral half (Figure 4 (a)); propodeum distinctly elongate (Figure 4 (d)), dull, finely coriaceous, with short silvery pubescence laterally on dorsal upper surface, posterior surface with a conspicuous, relatively wide median sulcus, coarsely transversely striated, and clothed with dense silvery pubescence; mesopleuron and metapleuron densely finely coriaceous throughout hardly visible because of dense pubescence (Figure 4 (c)); gaster with inconspicuous broad, incomplete bands of silvery pubescence on posterior margins of T1-3, hardly visible on T4 (Figure 4 (f)); S1 with longitudinal carina postero-medially.
Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2021, New data on the crabronid fauna of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Spheciformes): Crabronidae) from Jazan Province, with the description of three new species and the hitherto unknown male of Miscophus chrysis Kohl, 1894, pp. 1697-1748 in Journal of Natural History 55 (27 - 28) on page 1705, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1955993, http://zenodo.org/record/5530026
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