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♀ flying and stopping on a sandy soil, 4.xi.2019. Body length: 14.0 mm. Forewing length: 9.9 mm. HEAD: Internal border of eyes not emarginated and without a pale line. Seen laterally, face flat, and clypeus slightly arched forward. Clypeus subrectangular, more than twice as wide as long, with apical edge straight (without apical rim). Clypeus surface bald, finely and densely punctate and sparsely puncticulate with more large punctures. MESOSOMA: Seen laterally, pronotum squared in front, with abruptly vertical anterior face; propodeum strongly sloping posteriorly. Seen dorsally, sloping part of the propodeum without indentation or lateral tooth. Propodeum strigate or very finely wrinkled (=“cross-waved”?)(!) and matt. WINGS: Forewing with three submarginal cells. Wing with a distinct pocket at the base of the 2nd discoidal cell (vein CuA1 deflected posteriorly forming a distinct 'pocket'). 1st cubital vein more or less vertical. Wing membrane brown tinged. LEGS: Tarsal claws regularly curved; claws with a teeth in the middle. Pulvillus strong or well developed. Fore basitarsus without tarsal comb, but with three small lateral spines. 2nd fore tarsus short, as wide as long. Spines at apex of hind tibia splayed outwards, irregularly spaced, of differing lengths. METASOMA: Second sternite without a transverse groove. Last sternite laterally compressed. Last tergite lacking a brush of strong bristles. 2nd tergite with two reddish spots (!). REMARKS. Determination following Durand 2013 to genus level, Wolf 1975 to subgenus level; Berland 1925 and Wolf 1972 to species level. The characters marked with an exclamation (!) are the ones that deviate from the characters followed on the keys. It coulld be plicata or a naked clypeus form of crassitarsis.

♀ flying and stopping over a rock in a forest, 4.ix.2016. Body length: 13 mm. Forewing length: 9.8 mm. HEAD: Internal border of eyes not emarginated and without a pale line. Seen laterally, face flat, and clypeus slightly and evenly arched forward. Clypeus trapezoidal, more than twice as wide as long, with apical edge straight (without apical rim). Clypeus surface hairy. MESOSOMA: Seen laterally, pronotum squared in front, with abruptly vertical anterior face; propodeum strongly sloping posteriorly. Seen dorsally, sloping part of the propodeum without indentation or lateral tooth. Propodeum strigate or finely wrinkled and matt. WINGS: Forewing with three submarginal cells. Wing with a distinct pocket at the base of the 2nd discoidal cell (vein CuA1 deflected posteriorly forming a distinct 'pocket'). 1st cubital vein more or less vertical. Wing membrane brown tinged. LEGS: Tarsal claws regularly curved; claws with a teeth in the middle. Pulvillus strong or well developed. Fore basitarsus without tarsal comb, but with three small lateral spines. 2nd fore tarsus short, as wide as long. Spines at apex of hind tibia splayed outwards, irregularly spaced, of differing lengths. METASOMA: Second sternite without a transverse groove. Last sternite slightly laterally compressed. Last tergite lacking a brush of strong bristles. 2nd tergite dark, slightly reddish basally. REMARKS. Determination following Berland 1925 and Durand 2013 to genus level, Wolf 1975 to subgenus level; Wolf 1972 to species level (as Pedinaspis holomelas punicus).

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