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Hexapoda

First record of the genus Gynecaptera Skorikov, 1935 (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae) from Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species

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Pages 58-62 | Received 06 Nov 2016, Accepted 18 Jan 2017, Published online: 13 Feb 2017
 

Abstract

In the present study, the genus Gynecaptera Skorikov, Citation1935 is recorded from the Arabian Peninsula for the first time, with a nocturnal new species, G. arabica Soliman & Gadallah, which has been collected from the Riyadh region in Saudi Arabia and which is described and illustrated.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the members of the King Saud University Museum of Arthropods for help in collecting the specimens. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions that helped to improve this article.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCiD

Ahmed Mostafa Soliman http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5284-713X

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Funding

This study was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University by funding the research group NO (RGP-1437-009).

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