TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF VELVET ANTS OF THE GENERA ARTIOTILLA INVREA, RADOSZKOWSKITILLA LELEJ AND TAIWANOMYRME TSUNEKI (HYMENOPTERA: MUTILLIDAE)
Author
Lelej, A. S.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2020
2020-07-02
410
1
10
http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.410.1
journal article
10.25221/fee.410.1
2713-2196
Genus
Radoszkowskitilla
Lelej, 2005
Indratilla
: Lelej 1993: 233
, part.,
♀
non
♂
.
Radoszkowskitilla
Lelej, 2005: 75
, 187, figs 190–196.
♀
,
♂
; Lelej & Brothers 2008: 51;
Brothers & Lelej 2017: 60, 96; Pagliano
et al.
2020: 258, figs 407–409.
Type
species:
Indratilla ceylonica
Lelej, 1993
, by original designation.
SPECIES INCLUDED. Including current data the genus numbers three species:
Radoszkowskitilla aulica
(Smith, 1855)
,
comb. n.
,
R. ceylonica
(Lelej, 1993)
and
R.
sinhala
Lelej, 2005
.
DISTRIBUTION. Oriental region:
Sri Lanka
,
India
, *
Pakistan
.
REMARKS. The male of
Radoszkowskitilla
differs from male of Palaearctic
Artiotilla
by lacking any felt line on sternum 2 (short line in
Artiotilla
), by having longitudinal shiny medial line on mesoscutellum (lacking in
Artiotilla
), by sparse pale setae on T3 and T4 (well developed band of pale setae in
Artiotilla
). The female of
Radoszkowskitilla
differs from that of
Artiotilla
by having weakly sculptured carinated pygidial area (indistinct, not carinated in
Artiotilla
), by mandible without inner subbasal tooth (with such tooth in
Artiotilla
), by T2 posteriorly and
T3 with 2 spots of silver setae (T2 posteriorly without spots, T3 with band of yello-
wish setae in
Artiotilla
).