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 sophrona
Mickel
Dasymutilla sophrona
Mickel, 1928
.
U. S.
Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:271.
Holotype
male,
Willcox
,
Arizona
,
July 31, 1909
(
A. K. Fisher
) (
No.
40749) [USNM] (examined).
Diagnosis of Male
(Plate C8I). This male has the apices of the middle and hind femora squarely truncate, with the surface of the outer lobe being sulcate. Also, the integument of the metasoma is ferruginous. The tibial spurs are white, and the head is clothed with pale setae, being silver to white. The setae of the metasoma are entirely ferruginous to orange.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution
.
USA
(
Arizona
,
Texas
);
Mexico
(
Morelos
,
San Luis Potosi
,
Sinaloa
,
Sonora
).
Remarks
. This species is known only from the male. It is a relatively uncommon species, and only about a dozen specimens have been examined.