Revision of Odontophotopsis Viereck (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), Part 1, with a description of a new Genus Laminatilla
Author
Pitts, James P.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1619
1
43
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.179151
2a7d8e6f-de65-4bbc-9ae5-d44dacac7939
1175-5326
179151
Odontophotopsis dentifera
Schuster
(
Figs. 6, 7, 9, 10
)
Odontophotopsis
(
Odontophotopsis
)
dentifera
Schuster, 1958
. Ent. Amer. (n. s.) 37: 47, male.
Holotype
:
Mexico
, Baja California, Purissima, W.M.
Mann
(NMNH).
Diagnosis.
This species can be separated from other species in this group by the following combination of characters: the ocellar area is concolorous with head, the ocellocular distance is 1.7–2.4X the width of the lateral ocellus, the ventral margin of the mandible has a distinct rounded tooth (
Fig. 6
), the mesosternal processes are bidentate, the lamellate process of the middle coxa is longer than wide (
Fig. 7
), and the cuspis usually has four slender apical setae (
Figs. 9, 10
).
Distribution.
The Baja California Desert of Baja California and Baja California Sur,
Mexico
.
FIGURES 1–12.
Odontophotopsis cockerelli
: Fig. 1. hind leg trochanter; Fig. 2. genitalia, lateral view, penal valve removed; Fig. 3. penal valve lateral view.
Odontophotopsis denticoxa
: Fig. 4. mandible; Fig. 5. middle coxa.
Odontophotopsis dentifera
: Fig. 6. mandible; Fig. 7. middle coxa; Fig. 9 genitalia, dorsal view; Fig. 10. cuspis, lateral view, dorsum to left.
Odontophotopsis polis
: Fig.8. mandible; Fig. 11. genitalia, dorsal view; Fig. 12. lateral view, penal valve removed.
Material examined.
MEXICO
,
Baja California Sur
: Canipolé,
10 mi
SW,
1 male
,
28.Aug.1959
, K.W. Radford and F.G. Werner (
UAIC
); nr Canipolé,
2 males
,
2.Nov.1982
, R.L. Westcott (
FSCA
); La Paz,
15 mi
W,
1 male
,
5.Jul.1938
, Michelbacher and Ross (
UMSP
); Palmarita,
1 male
, Oct., W.M.
Mann
(
UMSP
); Mulegé,
4.5 mi
S, nr dunes,
1 male
,
13.Sep.1983
, Smith and Evans (
UCDC
); Puerto Escondido, Loreto,
1 male
,
23.Jun.1991
, R. Shaver (
UCDC
); Purissima,
7 male
paratypes
, W.M.
Mann
(
NMNH
); San José Del Cabo,
10 mi
SW,
5 males
,
1.Sep.1959
, K.W. Radford and F.G. Werner (
UAIC
).