Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species
Author
MANLEY, DONALD G.
Author
PITTS, JAMES P.
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Zootaxa
2007
2007-05-31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
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Dasymutilla imperialis
Manley and Pitts
Dasymutilla imperialis
Manley and Pitts, 2004
.
J. Kans. Ent. Soc.
77:646.
Holotype
male,
California
,
Imperial County
,
Glamis Dunes
,
1 mi.
W. Glamis
,
7 October 1988
(
T. Griswold
) [EMUS] (examined).
Diagnosis of Male
(Plate C5C). This recently-described species is easily identified by having both the integument and the setae entirely black, and by the presence of a pit filled with setae on sternum II. Also, the antennal scrobe is weakly carinate dorsally, and the pygidium lacks an apical fringe of setae.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution
.
USA
(
California
);
Mexico
(
Baja California Sur
).
Remarks
. This species is known only from the male and from only
nine specimens
, all of which have been examined.