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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FF06FC99FE27126E" bold="true" box="[151,466,798,825]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Pseudomethoca wickhami</emphasis>
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(sic)
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FF06FC05FDB212CD" box="[151,583,898,922]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Pseudomethoca (Nomiaephagus) vanduzei</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF64B49EC536F00FDDFFC05FCE412CD" author="Bradley, J. C." box="[590,785,898,922]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120" pagination="309 - 336" refId="ref13198" refString="Bradley, J. C. (1916) Contributions toward a monograph of the Mutillidae and their allies of America North of Mexico. III. The Mutillidae of the Eastern United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 42, 309 - 336." type="journal article" year="1916">Bradley, 1916: 321</bibRefCitation>
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, ♁.
<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FCD0FC05FC2A12CD" bold="true" box="[833,991,898,922]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">New synonym.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FF06FC27FE8E12EE" box="[151,379,928,953]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Pseudomethoca fattigi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF64B49EC536F00FE10FC27FDC812EE" author="Mickel, C. E." box="[385,573,928,953]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120" pagination="147 - 156" refId="ref14442" refString="Mickel, C. E. (1938) Synonymical notes and new species of Pseudomethoca and Dasymutilla (Mutillidae: Hymenoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 31, 147 - 156. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 31.2.147" type="journal article" year="1938">Mickel, 1938: 147</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FF06FC61FE8A1557" bold="true" box="[151,383,998,1024]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Material examined.</emphasis>
I examined
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FD2AFC60FCCD1556" box="[699,824,999,1025]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">P. vanduzei</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FD8BFB8CFD551572" box="[538,672,1035,1061]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">P. wickhami</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FF56FBA9FE94151F" bold="true" box="[199,353,1070,1096]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Distribution.</emphasis>
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
<collectingRegion id="49A3F85AEC536F00FE0DFBD4FE08153A" box="[412,509,1107,1133]" country="United States of America" name="Virginia" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Virginia</collectingRegion>
).
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FF56FBF0FECE15C6" bold="true" box="[199,315,1143,1169]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FED5FBF0FD9C15C6" box="[324,617,1143,1169]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Pseudomethoca wickhami</emphasis>
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was considered a rare species, being known in the literature apparently only from the
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and one additional specimen (
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). The female of
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FBBDFB1CFB5B15E2" box="[1068,1198,1179,1205]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">P. vanduzei</emphasis>
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, originally named
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FA19FB1CFF2F158E" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">P. fattigi</emphasis>
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, was associated by
<bibRefCitation id="EFF64B49EC536F00FE50FB38FD73158E" author="Krombein, K. V." box="[449,646,1214,1241]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120" pagination="749 - 773" refId="ref13928" refString="Krombein, K. V. (1951) Mutillidae. In: Muesebeck, C. F. W. &amp; Krombein, K. V. (Eds.), Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico Synoptic Catalog. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., pp. 749 - 773. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 65057" type="book chapter" year="1951">Krombein (1951)</bibRefCitation>
in a catalog without further comments or justification. Males of this species are charismatic and easily recognized by their bright golden tergal setae and females were readily recognized by their undefined pygidium and unique color pattern of T2 (marked with two pale orange lateral spots and with one anteromesal and one posteromesal silver setal patch). In a study on Müllerian mimicry systems in North America,
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Wilson
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. (2015)
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analyzed two color variants of
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FD40FAC8FCA5143E" box="[721,848,1359,1385]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">P. vanduzei</emphasis>
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females, one with a reddish metasoma in the Eastern
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and one with a blackish metasoma in the Central
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. The darker central form of
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FB15FAF4FAF014DA" box="[1156,1285,1395,1421]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">P. vanduzei</emphasis>
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perfectly fits the description of
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FEF1FA10FE1314E6" box="[352,486,1431,1457]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">P. wickhami</emphasis>
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and is the only sparsely setose medium-bodied
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FC68FA10FB5F14E6" box="[1017,1194,1431,1457]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Pseudomethoca</emphasis>
species
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seen in
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with a predominantly black metasoma.
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FDCEFA3CFC701482" box="[607,901,1467,1493]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">Pseudomethoca wickhami</emphasis>
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is the older name and is here recognized as a senior synonym of
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,
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<emphasis id="B913EAAAEC536F00FE6DFA58FD9614AE" bold="true" box="[508,611,1503,1529]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A22057D1EC536F00FE6DFA58FD9614AE" box="[508,611,1503,1529]" pageId="15" pageNumber="120">syn. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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