<documentid="DFC6DDEF95A4F15B934455D96E885108"ID-CLB-Dataset="48966"ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.179151"ID-GBIF-Dataset="2a7d8e6f-de65-4bbc-9ae5-d44dacac7939"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="179151"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="existingObjects,plazi"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="guilherme"checkinTime="1459939621103"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Pitts, James P."docDate="2007"docId="03AE2B55FFF4FFF81B9E2372FB368CD4"docLanguage="en"docName="zt01619p043.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 1619"docStyle="DocumentStyle:6581673A57F01A3145754A1E615EDFF0.4:Zootaxa.2007-2008.journal_article"docStyleId="6581673A57F01A3145754A1E615EDFF0"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2007-2008.journal_article"docStyleVersion="4"docTitle="Odontophotopsis setifera"docType="treatment"docVersion="13"lastPageNumber="18"masterDocId="FF97532DFFFBFFE91B092565FFB18816"masterDocTitle="Revision of Odontophotopsis Viereck (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), Part 1, with a description of a new Genus Laminatilla"masterLastPageNumber="43"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="16"updateTime="1739298462615"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="8B893725EA19C5C07470421FB23CB670">Revision of Odontophotopsis Viereck (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), Part 1, with a description of a new Genus Laminatilla</mods:title>
This species-group is easily diagnosed by the unique mandibular feature of having an extremely large dorsal tooth that is separated from the lower portion of the mandibular apex by a deep, wide sinus, which makes the mandibular apices appear biramose (
Body testaceous, antenna and legs slightly paler, stramineous; head, mesosoma and metasoma uniform in color throughout; body clothed with sparse, erect, brachyplumose and also decumbent, pale, plumose setae; apical margins of T1-T6 and S2-S6 with thick white plumose fringe; setae of terminal segment tinged with yellow.
Subquadrate posteriorly. Mandible excised ventrally, angle of excision acute, depth of excision 0.33X width of mandible at excision; dorsal carina strong, terminating at strong inner tooth, mandible vertical throughout; mandible greatly dilated beyond excision. Dorsal tooth of mandible separated from other teeth by deep sinus. Clypeus greatly depressed below margin of mandibles, median area concave; median anterior margin of clypeus as wide as length of F1, lateral angle projecting dorsally, tuberculate; surface of clypeus polished, almost impunctate, apically with only few erect setae; scape with single ventral carina. F1 ~0.75X length of F2. Front, vertex, and gena with sparse, shallow punctures, immediately posterior to antennal insertion, becoming separated and sparse on vertex and gena; ocelli moderate in size, ocellocular distance
. Sides and dorsum of pronotum coarsely punctate, dorsum with moderate, confluent, deep punctures, sides with somewhat larger, shallower punctures; mesonotum with moderate, contiguous, shallow punctures; notaulus weak, obsolete on anterior 0.75 of mesonotum; scutellum moderately punctate; dorsum and posterior face of propodeum conspicuously, shallow reticulate, reticulations extending on to sides of propodeum, but becoming coarse, punctate-reticulate; Metapleuron polished; anterolateral area of mesopleuron polished; remainder of mesopleuron with moderate to contiguous punctures; mesosternal processes large, triangular, acute apically, separated by distance 1.5X their height; surface of mesosternum with shallow, depressed groove along midline, otherwise with sparse punctures, interstitial regions polished. Metasternum deeply bidentate. Marginal cell on costa long, ~1.5X length of stigma.
puncture width; T2 polished, with fine, scattered punctures throughout; T3-5 weakly punctured, punctures most obvious at anterior and posterior margins; pygidium ovate, slightly longer than wide, polished, not margined; S2 with small, shallow, punctures, closer and deeper than on T3; sternal felt line ~0.2X length of tergal felt line; S3-5 very weakly punctured. Hypopygium with close, shallow punctures apically, apical margin rounded.
<bibRefCitationid="EF96E7B2FFEAFFF818512685FBA78BEC"author="Schuster"box="[856,1046,992,1018]"pageId="17"pageNumber="43"refString="Schuster, R. M. (1958) A revision of the sphaeropthalmine Mutillidae of America north of Mexico. II. Entomologica Americana 37, 1 - 130."type="journal article"year="1958">Schuster (1958)</bibRefCitation>
. Both species have been reported to be rare (
<bibRefCitationid="EF96E7B2FFEAFFF81A13216DFE618C34"author="Ferguson"box="[282,464,1032,1058]"pageId="17"pageNumber="43"refString="Ferguson, W. E. (1967) Male sphaeropthalmine mutillid wasps of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biology Series, 8, 1 - 26."type="journal article"year="1967">Ferguson 1967</bibRefCitation>
), but this may be an artifact of their limited distribution and environment or seasonal effects. In certain areas these species can be abundant and may need to be placed in a separate speciesgroup at a later date.
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<paragraphid="8BB89A43FFEAFFF81BCF21E5FB368CD4"blockId="17.[151,1437,152,1218]"pageId="17"pageNumber="18">Some aspects of mandibular and clypeal morphology, the sternal processes and the genitalia of the two species in this group differ greatly; it may be that these species are not closely related.</paragraph>
