A new species of the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa from the Sarawat Mountains in southwestern Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Michael S Engel; Abdulaziz S Alqarni; Mohamed A Shebl; Javaid Iqbal; Ismael A Hinojosa-Díaz

doi:10.3897/zookeys.716.21150

A new species of the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa from the Sarawat Mountains in southwestern Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Zookeys. 2017 Nov 23:(716):29-41. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.716.21150. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Michael S Engel^{1

2}, Abdulaziz S Alqarni³, Mohamed A Shebl^{3

4}, Javaid Iqbal^{3

5}, Ismael A Hinojosa-Díaz⁶

Affiliations

¹ Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-4415, USA.
² Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024-5192, USA.
³ Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.
⁵ Department of Entomology, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan.
⁶ Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, DF, Mexico.

Abstract

A new species of the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa Latreille (Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) is described and figured from two localities in southern Saudi Arabia. Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) sarawatica Engel, sp. n. is a relatively small species similar to the widespread X. pubescens Spinola, but differs in the extent of maculation in males, setal coloration of both sexes, and male terminalia. A revised key to the species of Xylocopa in Saudi Arabia is provided.

Keywords: Anthophila; Apoidea; Arabian Peninsula; Xylocopini; carpenter bees; taxonomy.