Smicromyrme ceballosi Suárez, 1959 and S. plantourianus Schwartz, 1986: two little known species new for Portugal (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae)
Author
Matias, Rafael
MNHNC - Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, 1250 - 102 Lisboa, Portugal & cE 3 c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749 - 016 Lisboa, Portugal
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-21
5375
1
58
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https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5375.1.3/52313
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5375.1.3
1175-5326
80115068-B117-4C7D-A565-358CB2136DBB
Genus
Smicromyrme
Thomson, 1870
Diagnosis
. FEMALE. Pygidium basally broad, laterally carinate, most frequently covered with pattern of well marked striae; apex may be smooth. Setae typically not covering pygidium surface. Scutellar scale present but never acute, normally transverse, broader than long. MALE. Felt-line present both on T2 and S2. Mesosoma with no significant white pubescence over pronotum (if present, pubescence is sparse, not forming dense band). T2 integument all black. Segment of subcosta between basal vein and pterostigma 0.7–1.1 × pterostigma length. Wings sub-hyaline to moderately infuscate; see also
Lelej & Williams 2023
.
Distribution and diversity
. The genus
Smicromyrme
presently includes 273 species distributed over the Afrotropical, Palaearctic and
Oriental
regions; at least 90 species are found around the Mediterranean, of which
ca
.
45 in
Europe; in the Iberian Peninsula 13 species are presently known, six of them only from the male sex and one only from the female sex. Five subgenera are currently recognized for Palaearctic species:
Astomyrme
Schwartz, 1984
,
Eremotilla
Lelej, 1985
,
Erimyrme
Lelej, 1985
,
Rhombotilla
Nagy, 1966
, and
Smicromyrme
s.s.
(
e.g.
Pagliano & Strumia 2019
;
Pagliano
et al.
2020
;
Schmid-Egger & Schmidt 2021
;
Lelej & Williams 2023
;
Terine & Kumar 2023
; this paper).