Review of the tribe Smicromyrmini Bischoff, 1920 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) Author Lelej, Arkady S. 0000-0001-7501-0981 Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia. lelej @ biosoil. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7501 - 0981 lelej@biosoil.ru Author Williams, Kevin A. 0000-0002-6073-1070 Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA. Kevin. Williams @ cdfa. ca. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6073 - 1070 illiams@cdfa.ca.gov text Zootaxa 2023 2023-01-27 5231 2 101 140 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.1 1175-5326 7575308 EBD53535-397E-4894-B0A4-9AC3CC38DF3C Tribe Smicromyrmini Bischoff, 1920 Smicromyrmini Bischoff, 1920: 23 ; Invrea 1964: 151 (Smicromyrminae); Brothers 1975: 592 (Smicromyrmina); Lelej 1985: 180 ; Lelej 1995b: 2 ; Lelej & Nemkov 1997: 4 ; Brothers 1999: 245 (Smicromyrmina); Brothers & Lelej 2017: 47 ; Pagliano et al. 2020: 169 . Diagnosis . MALE. Eye without setae; inner margin deeply notched. F1 shorter than F2. Scutellum simple, without median carina or postero-lateral denticle. Wing venations not reaching outer wing margin; distance between origin of RS on vein Sc and base of stigmatic cell nearly 2 × stigmatic cell length; hind wing without anal lobe. Tarsal claws without inner denticles. Metasomal segment 1 narrow; segment 2 with lateral felt line on T2 and sometimes on S2; S8 not reduced, plate-like; genitalia with symmetrical penis valves. FEMALE. Head not enlarged; eye oval, slightly protruding from head capsule, without setae; maxillary palpus six segmented; labial palpus four segmented. Mesosoma widest at pronotum or propodeum; mesopleuron concave; meso-metapleural suture ending at pronotal spiracle; dorsum of propodeum without row of denticles. Claws without inner denticles. T1 much narrower than T2, not petiolate; T2 with one or three, (two lateral transverse in some Mickelomyrme , subbasal band in some Dentilla , discal spots entirely obliterated in some species of many genera) subbasal spots of pale setae or without any spots. Genera included. 26 genera and 5 subgenera ( Brothers & Lelej 2017 , Pagliano et al. 2020 ). Diversity and distribution . Widely distributed in the Old World and numbers 26 genera, 528 species:Palaearctic (13/213), Afrotropical (15/126), and Oriental (14/204) Regions (Lelej 2007, Pagliano et al. 2020 , Thaochan et al. 2022 ). The endemic genera are: Nuristanilla Lelej in Lelej & Kabakov, 1980 , ♀ and Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002 , ♁, ♀ in the Palaearctic Region ; Indratilla Lelej, 1993 , ♁, ♀ ; Karunaratnea Lelej, 2005 , ♁, ♀ ; Nordeniella Lelej, 2005 , ♁, ♀ , and Tsunekimyrme Lelej, 1995b , ♁ in the Oriental Region ; and Antennotilla Bischoff, 1920 , ♁; Corytilla Arnold, 1956 , ♁, ♀ ; Ctenoceraea Nonveiller, 1993 , ♁; Guineomutilla Suárez, 1977 , ♀ ; Gynandrotilla Arnold, 1946 , ♁; Paglianotilla Lelej in Lelej & van Harten, 2006 , ♁; Psammotherma Latreille, 1825 , ♁; Pseudocephalotilla Bischoff, 1920 , ♁, ♀ ; and Sulcotilla Bischoff, 1920 , ♁, ♀ in the Afrotropical Region . TABLE 2. Overview of photographed specimens.
Figure Taxon Sex Country Museum Notes
1 Andreimyrme long ♁ China ZMMU Holotype
2,3,110 Andreimyrme rong ♀ Vietnam RMNH Holotype
4a Antennotilla phoebe ♁ South Africa FSCA Identified by KAW
4b Antennotilla phoebe ♁ South Africa DJBC Identified by Denis Brothers
5,6 Corytilla pallidipes ♁ Botswana CSCA Identified by KAW
7–10 Ctenoceraea pectinella ♁ Senegal MNHN Illustrations of Holotype from Nonveiller (1993)
11,12 Dentilla rasnitsyni ♁ United Arab Emirates RMNH Paratype
13,14,111 Dentilla curtiventris ♀ Greece CSCA Identified by Guido Pagliano
15,16 Dentilla curtiventris ♁ Greece CSCA Identified by Guido Pagliano
17,18 Ephucilla naja ♁ Taiwan CSCA Identified by KAW
19–21,112 Ephucilla thalia ♀ Taiwan DEI Holotype
22,23 Ephutomma angustata ♁ Uzbekistan CSCA Identified by KAW
24,25,113 Ephutomma fletcheri ♀ Sri Lanka USNM Identified by ASL
26 Guineomutilla mateui ♀ Cameroon DJBC Identified by Guido Nonveiller
27 Gynandrotilla ferruginea ♁ South Africa DJBC Identified by Denis Brothers
28,29 Indratilla gynandromorpha ♀, Sri Lanka USNM Identified by Børge Petersen
29 Indratilla gynandromorpha ♁ Sri Lanka ZIN Holotype
30,31,114 Karunaratnea palatupanae ♀ Sri Lanka IBSS Paratype
32–34 Karunaratnea palatupanae ♁ Sri Lanka USNM Holotype
35–37 Mutilla alberici ♀ Taiwan DEI Lectotype
38–40 Mutilla hageni ♁ Taiwan DEI Lectotype
41,42,115 Nemka viduata ♀ Italy FSCA Identified by KAW
43,44 Nemka viduata ♁ Greece FSCA Identified by KAW
45,46 Nordeniella thermophila ♀ Sri Lanka USNM Identified by ASL
47,48 Nordeniella thermophila ♁ Sri Lanka USNM Identified by ASL
49 Nuristanilla kabakovi ♀ Afghanistan ZIN Holotype
50 Paglianotilla hogenesi ♁ Yemen IBSS Paratype
51,52 Paglianotilla hogenesi ♁ Yemen RMNH Paratype
53,54 Physetopoda halensis ♀ Italy FSCA Identified by Marcelo Romano
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