Pseudoanthidium (Mesanthidiellum) amoenum

Pseudoanthidium (Mesanthidiellum) amoenum (Pasteels, 1969) Fig. 21 Mesanthidiellum amoenum Pasteels, 1969. – Male, female, Senegal. Holotype and paratypes in collection Roch Desmier de Chenon at Institut Agronomique de Versailles after Pasteels (1969 a); current deposition unknown. Female paratype also at Tervuren (MRAC; examined). Afranthidium amoenum (Pasteels, 1969). – Transferred to Afranthidium by Eardley and Urban (2006). Pseudoanthidium (Mesanthidiellum) amoenum (Pasteels, 1969). – Mesanthidiellum recognized as subgenus of Pseudoanthidium by Litman et al. (2016). Genetic Barcode ID. n / a. Material examined. • 1 ♀; Red Sea Governorate: Jebel Elba, Wadi Adeb; 04. 02. 1933; “ Mesanthidiellum amoenum J. Pasteels det. 1979 ”; H. Priesner leg. (CMK; Pasteels 1984). The collection locality was listed under Sudan by Pasteels (1984). Sources for identification. Description with line drawings in Pasteels (1969 a), key to subgenera and species description in Pasteels (1984). Fig. 21 herein. Notes. The specimen was identified by Pasteels, the author of P. amoenum. It agrees with the characters described in Pasteels (1969 a), in particular the mandibular morphology and the trapezoidal shape of T 6. A comparison with a female paratype deposited in MRAC further confirmed the identification. Distribution. Known only from Senegal and Egypt (Pasteels 1969 a, 1984). Ascher and Pickering (2026) show the species under Egypt and Sudan, but both country entries refer to the same record, which is treated here under Egypt.