Discovery of the Bee Tribe Tarsaliini in Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with the Description of a New Species Author Engel, Michael S. Abdulaziz S. Alqarni, & Division of Invertebrate Zoology (Entomology), American Museum of Natural History; Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence. & Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. & Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Author Michener, Charles D. Author Boontop, Yuvarin text American Museum Novitates 2017 2017-03-20 2017 3877 1 28 http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1206/3886.1 journal article 5847 10.1206/3877.1 30867afc-5ebd-4c4e-a008-1a7f423b8b81 0003-0082 4598486

TABLE 1. Hierarchical classification of tribes Tarsaliini and Ancylaini, with summaries of species distributions and synonyms (see also Baker, 1998).

Tribe TARSALIINI Engel, 2015
Genus Tarsalia Morawitz, 1895
Subgenus Astibomelissa Engel, n. subgen.
T. kindahensis Engel, n. sp.	Saudi Arabia: Najd
T. mimetes (Cockerell, 1933)	Egypt, Sudan
T. persica (Warncke, 1979)	Iran: Khuzestan, Fars
Subgenus Tarsalia s.str.
T. ancyliformis Popov, 1935	Turkey, Israel, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
= T. ancyliformis mediterranea Pittioni, 1950	Cyprus, Sardinia
T. cellularis (Cameron, 1898)	India: Deccan Plateau
T. deccana Baker, 1971 [1972]	India: Eastern and Western ghats
T. hirtipes Morawitz, 1895	Turkey, Uzbekistan, Iran: Razavi Khorasan, Fars,
	Khuzestan
= T. hirtipes cyriaca Mavromoustakis, 1952	Cyprus
T. strobilanthae Baker, 1998	India: Konkan Coast
Tribe ANCYLAINI Michener, 1944
Genus Ancyla Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1841
A. asiatica Friese, 1922	Lebanon, Turkey
A. brevis Dours, 1873	Algeria
= A. punica Friese, 1922	Tunisia
A. cretensis Friese, 1902	Crete
= A. cretensis kilikia Warncke, 1979	Turkey
A. holtzi Friese, 1902	Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Iran: Fars
= A. holtzi anatolica Warncke, 1979	Turkey
A. nitida Friese, 1902	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Turkey
= A. nitida nigricornis Friese, 1902
A. oraniensis Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1841	Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
= A. flavilabris (Lucas, 1849)
= A. heterodoxa (Cockerell, 1937)
A. orientalica Warncke, 1979	Greece, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
A. stolli Friese, 1922	Iran: Fars, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey