Revision of the Traumatomutilla gemella species-group (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) with the description of its hitherto unknown males
Author
Bartholomay, Pedro R.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Laboratório de Hymenoptera, Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas (Brazil); and Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica, Avenida José Ruschi nº 4, Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo (Brazil) pedroreck @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
Author
Williams, Kevin A.
Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento CA 95832 (USA) kevin. williams @ cdfa. ca. gov
williams@cdfa.ca.gov
Author
Cambra, Roberto A.
Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá 0824 (Panamá) cambramiup 60 @ gmail. com
Author
Oliveira, Marcio L.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Laboratório de Hymenoptera, Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas (Brazil)
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Zoosystema
2021
2021-01-12
43
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KEY TO FEMALES OF THE
TRAUMATOMUTILLA
GEMELLA
SPECIES- GROUP
1. T2 with a pair of sublateral longitudinal yellow integumental stripes arched outward at posterior third (
Fig. 1A, B
); Cerrado, Caatinga, and Restinga (
Brazil
) species ..............................................
T. andrei
(
Cresson, 1902
)
.
— T2 with a pair of subcircular yellowish to reddish integumental spots (
Figs 2A
;
3A
;
4A
;
5A
;
7A
;
9A
;
10A
;
12A
) ............................................................................................................................................................ 2
2. Lateral face of propodeum with dense pale golden setae and micropunctures on anterodorsal third (
Fig. 10B
); head setae completely black (
Figs 9A, C
;
10A, B
); setae on posterior half of mesosomal dorsum golden (
Figs 9A
;
10A
); Atlantic Forest (
Brazil
) species .........................................................................
T. gemella
André, 1906
.
— Lateral face of propodeum with sparse erect setae only, intervals between larger punctures smooth (
Figs 2C
;
3C
,
4C
;
5C
;
7B
;
12B
); head setae predominantly silvery-white to silvery-golden (
Figs 2A
;
3A
;
4A
;
5A
;
7A
;
12A
) ... .................................................................................................................................................................... 3
3. Propodeal dorsum convex throughout or evenly sloping posterad, not conspicuously elevated anywhere, dorsalface smoothly angulate into posterior face in lateral view (
Figs 4C
;
5C
) ................................................... 4
— Propodeal dorsum conspicuously elevated medially on posterior margin, dorsal face sharply angulate into posterior face in lateral view (
Figs 7B
;
12B
) ...................................................................................................... 5
4. Propodeum robust, dorsal face slightly longer than posterior face (
Fig. 5C
) ..................
T. chuza
Casal, 1969
.
— Propodeum slender, elongate, dorsal face much longer than posterior face (
Fig. 3C
,
4C
) ............................... ............................................................................................................................
T. angustata
(
André, 1906
)
.
5. Head setae entirely silvery-white, varying in density ..................
T. peismatara
Bartholomay & Cambra
n. sp.
— Silvery-white setae of head restricted to dense transverse band on vertex, and sparser setae on malar space and gena (
Fig. 7A, B
) ................................................................................................
T. diopthalma
(
Klug, 1821
)
.