Published September 24, 2025 | Version v1
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Synnevrus arabicus Schmid-Egger & Al-Jahdhami 2025, comb. nov.

  • 1. Fischerstr. 1, 10317 Berlin, Germany.
  • 2. Samad Ashan, P. O. 121 Samad Ashan 423, Oman.

Description

Synnevrus arabicus (Gadallah & Edmardash, 2023), comb. nov.

(Fig, 21, 36).

Nysson arabicus Gadallah and Edmardash in Abu el-Ghiet, Gadallah, Gasib, Al-Fifi, and Edmardash, 2023:155, ♂. Holotype: ♂, Saudi Arabia: Sala Mountain: Abdul Rahman Al Jabri farm at 17°04'10.5''N 43°07'43.3''E (Efflatoun Bey collection, Entomology Department, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt (depository not given in the original description, taken from Pulawski, 2025).

Remark: The species was described in Nysson, but belongs clearly to Synnevrus, which is restored from synonymy here. See introduction for details.

Recognition: The male of Synnevrus arabicus can be recognized by the key characters, mainly by the colour pattern. It is the only Arabian species of the genus with a black mesosoma (with some red only) and with yellow spots or bands on T1-5.

Distribution: Only known from the type area in the Jazan Province in Saudi Arabia (Fig. 36).

Notes

Published as part of Schmid-Egger, Christian & Al-Jahdhami, Ali A., 2025, Nyssonini of the Arabian Peninsula with description of six new species (Hymenoptera, Spheciformes, Bembicidae), pp. 247-259 in Zootaxa 5696 (2) on page 255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/17324888

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schmid-Egger & Al-Jahdhami
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Crabronidae
Genus
Synnevrus
Species
arabicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Synnevrus arabicus (Gadallah, 2023) sec. Schmid-Egger & Al-Jahdhami, 2025