Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) dinkleri

Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) dinkleri (Friese, 1898) Prosopis dinkleri Friese, 1898: 311–312, ♀ (not ♂). Egypt, Suez. Lectotype ♀ ZMB Berlin. Prosopis albonotata auctorum nec Walker, 1871. Prosopis falsifica Alfken, 1930: 221–223, ♀ (not ♂). Egypt, Ghezireh. Lectotype ♀ ZMB Berlin. Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) dinkleri (Friese, 1898) – Dathe 1995: 159–160; Lhomme et al. 2020: 67. Diagnosis. A richly yellow-coloured, dainty species, like Hylaeus xanthopoda, with entirely yellow tibiae and tarsi. However, in the males, the labrum and mandibles are black, the scapes only have a yellow longitudinal stripe; last tergites are completely black. Reliable characters are exhibited mainly on the female: bright yellow, dull spots on the facial sides and the clypeus, often also on the supraclypeal area; the lateral spots are significantly shorter on top (Fig. 7). Differences to H. xanthopoda are not only in the colour, but also in the sculpture of the mesonotum and metasoma. In both sexes, the integument of T 1 is finely punctate, smooth and shiny. The mesonotum is shagreen, but with close moderate punctation. Terminalia of males (Fig. 56): Genital capsule elongate, gonoforcipes slender, apical lobe of S 8 broad and deeply notched, finely bristled. Distribution. Israel, Jordan, Egypt. Remarks. Finds of this species were often reported as Hylaeus albonotatus in the past, for example by Warncke (1972: 750). The designation of lectotypes in the ZMB (Dathe 1995: 159) fixed the independent status of H. dinkleri. At least in Egypt, these species are sympatric. An earlier reported occurrence in Morocco (Dathe 1995, Lhomme et al. 2020) is probably wrong; of the 143 specimens Dathe has since examined, none was found west of Egypt.