Philanthus coarctatus Spinola 1839
Creators: name: Malash, Alyaa A.
name: Edmardash, Yusuf A.
name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Philanthus
Philanthus coarctatus

description: Philanthus coarctatus Spinola, 1839
Figs 5A–D, 6A, B.
Philanthus coarctatus Spinola, 1839: 486, ♁, ♀.
Diagnosis. Body length: 7.4− 10 mm (female); 9−12 mm (male).
Body generally black with pale areas in female whitish to yellowish white (Figs 5A, B, 6A), while clear yellow in male (Figs 5C, D, 6B); mesoscutum black, sometimes with two thin yellow streaks, T 1 ferruginous in female (Figs 5A, 6A), with large preapical whitish marking laterally; malar space indistinct (Fig. 5B, D); clypeal moustache in male long, meeting medially (Fig. 5D); mesoscutum sparsely punctate, smooth and shiny between punctures (Fig. 6A); upper mesopleuron smooth, lower mesopleuron densely punctate (Fig. 6B); propodeal enclosure smooth and shiny, with rugose median sulcus (Fig. 6A); gastral T 3 black in both sexes, with microsculpture between superficial punctures that make it dull in appearance (Fig. 5A, C). Male genitalia (see Fig. 23B).
Material examined: 1♀, Maadi, vi.1913, Cable collector (EFC); 3♀, 2♁, Wadi El-Lega (South Sinai), 30.vii.1941, Efflatoun & Sh. M. collectors (EFC); 1♁, Wadi El-Lega (South Sinai), 24.viii.1941, Efflatoun & Sh. M. collectors (EFC); 5♀, 1♁, Wadi Degla, 16.v.1952, Shefix & Pries. collectors (EFC); 1♁, Wadi El-Lega (South Sinai), 12.ix.1941, Efflatoun & Sh. collectors (EFC); 1♁, Wadi El-Lega (South Sinai), 7.viii.1942, Efflatoun and Sh. M. collectors (EFC); 5♀, 1♁, Wadi Degla, 16.v.1952, Shefix & Pries. collectors (EFC); 1♁, Giza, 15.iii.1953, collector? (EFC); 1♁, Fayoum Road, 8.v.1953, collector? (EFC); 1♀, Girza (Giza), 9.v.1953, collector? (EFC); 2♁, 8.vi.1990, collector? det. C. G. Roche (EFC); 5♁, 1♀, Wadi Khoshb (S. Sinai), 16.iv.2016, Medhat Abool Soud collector (EFC); 12♁, 1♀, Wadi Degla, 21.vi.2022, on Ochradenus baccatus, Alyaa Malash collector (EFC); 1♁, Hurghada, 25.vi.2022, on O. baccatus, Alyaa A. Malash collector (EFC); 12♁, 1♀, Wadi Degla, 21.vi.2022, on O. baccatus, Alyaa A. Malash collector (EFC); 8♁, 7♀, Wadi Degla, on O. baccatus, 7.vii.2022, Alyaa A. Malash collector (EFC), 1♀, without locality or date (EFC); 6♀, 9♁, Wadi Degla, 2.viii.2022, O. baccatus, Neveen Gadallah & Yusuf Edmardash collectors (EFC); 1♀, without data (EFC); 2♁, Suez, 17.viii.1953, Aly collector (ASUA); 1♁, El Gabal El Asfar, 8.vii.1953, Aly collector (ASUA); 1♁, Wadi Hof, 8.x.1953, S.H. collector (ASUA); 1♀ without gaster, 1♁, 2.v.1952, Aly collector (ASUA); 1♁, Berkash, 5.vi.1952, Aly collector (ASUA); 1♀, Abu Rawash, 4.xii.1952, Aly collector (ASUA); 2♁, Khatatbah, 23.v.1952, Saleh collector (ASUA); 1♁, Aswan, 24.i.1952, Saleh collector (ASUA); 2♀, 1♁, Kom Oshiem, 1.viii.1953, Aly collector (ASUA); 2♁, Kafr Hakim, 21.x.1934, Det. Mochi (PPDD); 1♁ Abu Rawash, 23.ix.1934, on Pepper, det. Mochi (PPDD); 4♁, 5♀, Kerdasa, 19.v.1931, det. Mochi (PPDD); 9♁, 12♀, Helwan, 21.viii.1934 (PPDD); 1♁, Helwan, 20.viii.1917 (AUCE); 1♀, Ezbet El Nakhl, 3.vi.1920 (ACUE); 2♁, Hawamdia, 20.v.1925 (AUCE); 1♁, Abu Rawash, 30.vii.1925 (AUCE); 1♀, Kerdasa, 20.x.1926 (AUCE); 1♀, Kerdasa, 30.x.1926 (AUCE); 1♁, El Gabal El Asfar, 14.vii.1927 (AUCE); 1♁, Fayoum, 11.vii.1927 (AUCE); 2♁, Hawamdia, 12.v.1929 (AUCE); 1♁, Hawamdia, 7.xi.1931 (AUCE); 1♁, Pyramids, 14.v.1933 (AUCE); 1♁, Beni Yusuf, 15.iv.1934 (AUCE); 1♁, 1♀, Sakkara, 15.iv.1935 (AUCE); 1♀, Beni Yusuf, 21.v.1936; 1♀, El Gabal El Asfar, 15.v.1938 (AUCE); 1♁, Kafr Farouk, 26.ii.1939 (AUCE); 1♁, Aswan, 28.i.1925 (AUCE); 1♀, Ezbet El Nakhl, 4.vi.1933 (AUCE); 1♀, Dahshour, 17.iv.1929 (AUCE); 1♁, Wadi Degla, 10.iv.1931 (AUCE); 1♀, Wadi Khafouri, 1.v.1925 (AUCE).
Previous Egyptian Records: Ezbet El Nakhl, Maadi (Storey, 1916 as P. coarctatus and as P. niloticus), very common species, found everywhere in Egypt (Honoré 1942 as P. coarctatus and as P. niloticus; Gadallah 1996), Aswan, Luxor (Pulawski 1964; Roche 2007), Gabal Uweinat (Krombein 1974), Fayed, Fayoum, El Gabal El Asfar, Giza, Helwan, Kabrit, Kerdasa, Kom Oshiem, Kom Ombo, Manqabad, Wadi Degla, Wadi El Natroun, Wadi Er Rayan, Za’farana Road, Sinai (Hammamat Faraoun, Rafah, Um Bugma) (Roche 2007), Hurghada, Wadi Degla, Wadi Khoshb (South Sinai) (present study).
Extralimital distribution: Algeria, Chad, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen.
Remarks. Characters of Egyptian specimens agree with de Beaumont’s key (1949: 180, couplet 10). Our males and females also agree with the Tunisian specimens (see Ben Khedher et al. 2021, figs 1 (D, E), 3(D, E)), and with Guichard’s key (1994: 208, couplet 7).
description: Published as part of Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2023, The genera Philanthus Fabricius, 1790 and Philanthinus de Beaumont, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) in Egypt, with a new record and the description of a new species, pp. 151-189 in Zootaxa 5249 (2) on pages 162-164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7687292