Meliturgula arabica Popov 1951

14. Meliturgula arabica Popov, 1951 (Fig. 14a–f) Meliturgula arabica Popov, 1951: 581, ♂. Type locality: Jeddah, Makkah Province (Saudi Arabia). Published (original) locality: “Dzhedda, Aravia”. Holotype: ♂, N 115 [Saudi Arabia, Makkah Province, Jeddah, 39°10′N 21°32′E], [February, N.N. Zhehzhurist leg.] // Meliturgula arabica Popov, Typ. V. Popov, 1950 // Holotypus Meliturgula arabica Popov, 1951 <red label> // Borgatomelissa brevipennis, ♂, Det. Patiny 2002 // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002563. Current status. Borgatomelissa brevipennis (Walker, 1871) (according to Patiny & Gaspar 2000: 6; Ortiz-Sánchez & Patiny 2019: 1). Distribution. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Senegal, Sudan, Ethiopia, Oman, Yemen, Eritrea, Somalia, Mauritania, Mali (Popov 1951; Patiny & Gaspar 2000; Ortiz-Sánchez & Patiny 2019; Monks et al. 2024).