Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) xanthopoda Levant

Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) xanthopoda (Vachal, 1895) Prosopis xanthopoda Vachal, 1895: 325, ♀. Egypt, Cairo. Holotype MNHN Paris. Prosopis schmiedeknechti Friese, 1898: 310–311, ♀ ♂. Egypt. Lectotype ♀ ZMB Berlin. Diagnosis. Of the similar species with almost entirely yellow legs, Hylaeus xanthopoda is distinguished in both sexes by the dominant shagreen of T 1; a scattered, shallow punctation is only vaguely recognisable. The mesonotum is shagreen and only with scattered, fine punctation. In the females, the mask is tripartite, the clypeus yellow-spotted, the lateral spots expanded far upwards and the foveae faciales appear as dark strokes in the yellow field (Fig. 6). The last visible tergites of the males (T 6, often also T 5) carry a yellow spot, a unique feature of this species. Genital capsule similarly compact as H. aenigmatis, but apical lobe of S 8 with broad stalk and only distally flatly emarginated (Fig. 55). Distribution. Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iran: Kerman. According to Gotlieb et al. (2011), this is a common species in Israeli gardens.