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
1487
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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 perilla
Mickel
Dasymutilla perilla
Mickel, 1928
.
U. S.
Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:300.
Holotype
male,
Texas
(No. 40756) [USNM] (examined).
Diagnosis of Male
(Plate C7K). This species can be diagnosed by the following combination of characters, including coloration. The antennal scrobe is not carinate. It lacks a median pit filled with setae on sternum II. The dorsum of the metasoma is clothed entirely with red setae, from the apical half of tergum II. Setae of the head and mesosoma are black. The integument is entirely black.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution
.
USA
(
New Mexico
,
Texas
);
Mexico
(
Coahuila
,
Nuevo Leon
,
Tamaulipas
).
Remarks
. This species is known only from the male. It has a very localized distribution, although it is relatively common where found. Approximately a hundred specimens of this species have been examined.