Revision of Odontophotopsis Viereck (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), Part 1, with a description of a new Genus Laminatilla
Author
Pitts, James P.
text
Zootaxa
2007
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.179151
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179151
Odontophotopsis setifera
Schuster
(
Fig. 29–31
)
Odontophotopsis
(
Odontophotopsis
)
setifera
Schuster, 1952
. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 47: 47–49, male.
Holotype
: California, Riverside Co., Palms to Pines Highway,
28.May.1940
, R.M. Bohart (UMSP).
Odontophotopsis
(
Odontophotopsis
)
setifera
Schuster, 1958
. Ent. Amer. (n. s.) 37: 56, male.
Diagnosis.
This species is differentiated from
O. biramosa
by the mandible having four teeth, the clypeus having short, peg-like setae, but in lacking a horseshoe-shaped tubercle located posteromedially on the clypeus, by having two teeth on each side of the midline (the posterior tooth is approximately a third of the height of the anterior tooth;
Fig. 29
), and by having the cuspis being approximately equal to the free length of the paramere (
Figs. 30, 31
).
Distribution.
The western Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Baja California,
Mexico
.
Material examined.
USA
, Arizona
:
La Paz Co
., Ehrenberg, 1
paratype
male,
29.Apr.1939
, F.H. Parker (
UMSP
).
California,
Fresno Co
., Jacalitos,
4 males
,
31.Jul.1956
, R.O. Schuster (
UCDC
);
Imperial Co.
, Dos Palmas Ranch
,
2 males
,
7.May.1983
, B.K. Dozier (
FSCA
);
Inyo Co.
, Olancha
,
4 mi
E,
57 males
,
19– 20.Jun.2006
, K.A. Williams (
EMUS
); Tinemaha Reservoir Sand Dunes, East Side,
2 males
,
12.Aug.1975
, Andrews and Hardy (
CDFA
);
Riverside Co
., Corn Springs,
10 mi
S Desert Center,
22 males
,
17.Jul.2005
, K.A. Williams (
EMUS
); Deep Canyon,
1 male
,
16.May.1963
, E.I. Schlinger (
UCRC
); Magnesia Canyon,
20.Jul.1952
, McClay (
UCDC
); Palm Springs,
1 male
,
27.May–6.Jun.1932
, T. Zschokke (
UMSP
),
1 male
,
6.Jun.1932
, T. Zschokke (
UAIC
),
1 male
,
15.Sep–15.Oct.1932
(
UMSP
);
San Bernardino Co.
,
5mi
. S. of Barstow on HW 247,
40 males
,
16.Jul.2005
, K.A Williams (
EMUS
); Kelso Dunes, S. side,
1 male
,
19.Jun.1999
, G.R. Ballmer, Hawks, Powell and Yanega (
UCRC
); 29 Palms,
10 mi
. E,
8 males
,
16.Jun.1966
, (
CDFA
).
Nevada
,
Lincoln Co
., Game Range Dunes,
1 male
,
14.Aug.1975
, Andrews and Hardy (
CDFA
).
MEXICO
:
Baja California
, San Felipe,
5 mi
N,
1 male
,
3.Jun.1961
, H.F. Howden (
CNCI
).
Remarks.
Schuster described this species as new twice, first in 1952 and again with the same name in 1958. The specimen listed as a
paratype
above was published as a
paratype
in
Schuster (1952)
, but bears a label stating “c.w.
type
, 1959, R.M. Schuster” and apparently was the
holotype
specimen for the 1958 publication. This label should be disregarded and the specimen considered a
paratype
only.