S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 55. (Budapest, 1994)

the center and gradually becoming stronger and denser on the sides; terga four to seven confluent punctuate, without lateral gradulus; first sternum transversely, although irregularly wrinkled; second sternum densely covered with large, uneven, round punctures, interspace narrow, mere septa; third sternum with rather small setigerous punctures, interspace twice as wide as the punctures themselves; sterna four and five confluent punctuate; copulatory brushes of sixth sternum, of laterally flattened bristles, rather narrowly separate mesally (Fig. 9). Head, thorax and first tergum reddish yellow; flagellum, palpi, base of mandible, fore and middle femur yellow; apex of mandible and hind femur brownish; tibiae and tarsi yellowish white; wings hyaline to weakly milky, veins pale yellow, pterostigma amber; abdomen, save first tergum, castaneous; body and appendages clothed with snowwhite, bluish iridescent pubescence; copulatory brushes of sixth sternum orange brown. Female and biology unknown. Distribution. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia. Material examined. Holotype male, on pin, antennae incomplete after fourth segment, labelled: "Tunisia, Boughrara, 9. IV. 1977, No. 94, S. Mahunka &"; holotype deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest; Hym. Typ. No. 6965. Paratypes, 15 males: 1 male "Northern Arabia, Bedai, 12. XII. 1943, Dr. Hardy"; 1 male "Egypt, Sinai, Firan, 23. VIII. 1967, G. Canaani"; 1 male "Egypt, Sinai, Hammam Musa, 29. III. 1969, J. Kugler"; 1 male "Egypt, East Sinai, Wadi Watin, 12. VIII. 1971, M. Kaplan"; 2 males "Egypt, West Sinai, Sarabit-el-Hadem, 15. VIII. 1971, M. Kaplan"; 4 males "Egypt, Sinai, Nueiba, 6. IX. 1974, A. Freidberg, M. Kaplan"; 1 male "Egypt, Sinai, Firan, 28. IX. 1977, A. Freidberg"; 1 male "Sinai, Moses Quellen" no date and collector; 3 males "Sinai, Nabek, 20. VII. 1981, Kuty Yefenof; paratypes are deposited in Mus. Budapest (Hym. Typ. No. 6966), Mus. Copenhagen, Mus. Genova, Mus. Leiden, TA University, Coll. Argaman. Etymology. It is a great pleasure for me to dedicate the new species to its collector, Dr Sándor Mahunka, excellent specialist in mites, renown collector and affectionate friend; this was the first specimen of the new species I saw during my visit at Budapest in 1978, other specimens became available later. Variation. The paratypes vary in body length from 8.2 to 15.5 mm; first tergum of the small specimens is quite parallel-sided, 1.4 times as long as wide; punctures of second and third terga in the small specimens being relatively denser and more confluent, but not deeper; dorsal disc of propodeum in small ones increase up to 0.7 times the declivity; male genitalia and shape of copulatory brushes share no important variations. Due to the body size, it was confused in the collections with Macroocula morawitzi. In that species the aedeagus is distinctly shorter than the parameres (Fig. 10), whilst they are of the same length in Doryleika mahunkai (Fig. 8). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted for the loan of types and unidentified material to Dr J. Papp, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest; Dr B. Petersen, Zoologisk Museum, Kobenhavn (Mus. Copenhagen); Dr A. Freidberg, Tel Aviv University (TA University); Dr G. Nonveiller, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.