ID by Bernhard Merz
Département d'Entomologie, Muséum d'histoire naturelle
Genève, Switzerland

This species "..described from Israel".. "later recorded Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen." Merz 2011 (in Van Harten (ed): Arthropod Fauna of the UAE Vol. 4)

"M. negeviana is a species that breeds in flowers of Blepharis (Acanthaceae) and is fairly common on its host, at least in Israel." B Merz

1st photo in UAE