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
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10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
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Dasymutilla cotulla
Mickel
Dasymutilla cotulla
Mickel, 1928
.
U. S.
Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:75.
Holotype
male,
Cotulla
,
Texas
,
November 26, 1905
(
F. C. Pratt
) (
No.
40721) [USNM] (examined).
Diagnosis of Male
(
Plate C3O
). This species is diagnosed by the last sternite being distinctly dentate, the concave sternum II which may have a tiny pit filled with setae, and by having the head and mesosoma clothed with black setae.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution
.
USA
(
New Mexico
,
Texas
);
Mexico
(
Coahuila
,
Durango
).
Remarks
. This species is known only from the male. It is characterized by having the last sternite dentate, a character that it shares only with
D. vestita
. It is distinguished from the latter by the head and mesosoma being clothed with black setae.
This is a relatively common species. Approximately 40 to
50 specimens
have been examined.