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. text Zootaxa 2007 2007-05-31 1487 1 1 128 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1 1175­5334 5086787 5790FDAC-C5EE-4ED3-AECE-33C0851E956E Dasymutilla leve Manley & Pitts , new species Holotype female, Mexico , Sinaloa , 8 mi SE Elota , V-19-62, L. A. Stange [ UCDC ]. Diagnosis of Female (Plate C5N). This species can be diagnosed by the following combination of characters, including coloration. This is a relatively unimpressive species having the integument entirely ferruginous, except the terminal segment(s) that is(are) black. The setae are mixed white to yellow and black, giving this species a diagnostic color pattern. Also, the head is quadrate and as broad as the mesosoma, the antennal scrobe is carinate dorsally, the gena lacks a carina, the mesosoma is slightly longer than broad, and lacks a scutellar scale, and the pygidium is longitudinally rugose. Description . Female: Length, 7–10 mm . Head . Ferruginous, quadrate, clothed with dense appressed yellow setae and scattered long black erect setae; apical half of mandible black, basal half ferruginous, acute at apex and lacking inner tooth; clypeus broadly triangular, slightly concave, glabrous, and straight along anterior margin; scape weakly carinate, smooth and shiny, clothed with scattered yellow setae; flagellomere I slightly longer than remaining flagellomeres; antennal scrobe weakly but distinctly carinate; front and vertex with coarse contiguous punctures, concealed by dense setae; gena smooth and shiny, with only shallow scattered punctures, and lacking genal carina; head width about 1.6–2.2 mm , equal in width to mesosoma. Mesosoma . Ferruginous, slightly longer than broad ( 1.6–2.2 mm wide X 1.8–2.5 mm long); scutellar scale lacking; anterior margin slightly convex; dorsum with coarse contiguous punctures; posterior face of propodeum reticulate, with large contiguous punctures; pleura and side of propodeum smooth, shining; dorsum with triangular pattern of dense appressed and erect black setae anteriorly, followed by “V” -shaped pattern of dense appressed yellow setae; propodeum almost bare with few scattered erect black setae. Legs ferruginous, smooth and shining with scattered white setae, except apices of middle and hind femora with black setae. Metasoma . Ferruginous, except apical segment(s) black; tergum I smooth and shining with few shallow scattered punctures; disk of tergum II with shallow contiguous punctures; pygidium longitudinally rugose; sternum I with short sharp carina produced into tooth posteriorly; tergum I with only few scattered erect setae and thin brush of appressed pale setae medially; tergum II with only scattered erect black setae, except broad apical band with appressed black setae, narrowly interrupted medially with white setae; tergum III entirely with dense black setae, except narrowly interrupted medially with white; remaining terga with white setae. Male . Unknown. Paratypes . 2♀ , same data as holotype ( 1♀ , UCDC ; 1♀ , DGMC ) . Distribution . Mexico ( Sinaloa ). Etymology. From the Latin levis “simple,” in reference to its relatively unimpressive appearance. Remarks . This species is known only from the female and keys with relative ease. The mesosoma of the holotype is broken.