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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FF65FE6938B8FE3E" bold="true" box="[151,455,413,439]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Odontophotopsis acmaea</emphasis>
Viereck
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FF65FE1138CDFE75" box="[151,434,485,508]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Odontophotopsis acmaeus</emphasis>
Viereck, 1904
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. Amer. Ent. Soc., Trans. 30: 84. Male.
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no. 2304 (NMNH).
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(
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)
<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FDD0FDD13BB2FDB5" box="[546,717,549,572]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">adonis acmaeus</emphasis>
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. Ent. Amer. 37: 54. Male.
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(
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)
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Schuster
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(nec Melander, nec
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. 53, 57, 58), 1958. Ent. Amer. 37: 55. Male.
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FF65FD5E38F4FD4D" bold="true" box="[151,395,682,708]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Diagnosis of male.</emphasis>
This species is recognized by having the following combination of characters: the mandible is excised ventrally forming an angle (
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), but does not taper towards the apex; the apex of the mandible is slightly dilated; the mesosternum has only one pair of large distinct spines that have a posterior face that is longitudinally sulcate and have an apex that is bifid; the metasternum is bidentate; and the pygidium is granulate, but not defined laterally by carinae. The genitalia of this species are similar to those of
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FF65FC913871FCF7" box="[151,270,869,894]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">O. aufidia</emphasis>
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(see
<figureCitation id="40D42A68C758FFA6FEB9FC9138F0FCF6" box="[331,399,869,895]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 12" captionStartId="4.[151,278,1762,1786]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,197,1724]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[151,1436,197,1739]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURES 1 12. Head, anterior view. 1. Acanthophotopsis falciformis; 2. Acrophotopsis campylognatha; 3. Odontophotopsis acmaea; 4. O. armata; 5. O. aufidia; 6. O. bellona; 7. O. biramosa; 8. O. clypeata; 9. O. inconspicua; 10. O. mamata; 11. O. melicausa; and 12. O. quadrispinosa." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/196848/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
of Pitts
<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FE00FC913B59FCF7" box="[498,550,869,894]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">et al</emphasis>
. 2009).
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FF37FC7E385AFC2A" box="[197,293,906,931]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Female.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<paragraph id="D85036EDC758FFA6FF37FC5B38FFFC66" blockId="5.[151,1437,682,1679]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FF37FC5B3B34FC40" bold="true" box="[197,587,943,969]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Material examined. California</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FDA9FC443B88FC40" box="[603,759,944,969]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Riverside Co</emphasis>
.: Deep Canyon,
<specimenCount id="CEE9FD64C758FFA6FC36FC443D5BFC43" box="[964,1060,944,970]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" type="male">2 males</specimenCount>
,
<date id="AC51102DC758FFA6FBC3FC443DB6FC43" box="[1073,1225,944,970]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" value="1968-04-13">13.Apr.1968</date>
, coll. P. Rauch,
<specimenCount id="CEE9FD64C758FFA6FA7FFC4439ACFC66" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
,
<date id="AC51102DC758FFA6FF2CFC213802FC66" box="[222,381,981,1007]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" value="1963-05-16">16.May.1963</date>
.
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FF37FC0E381AFB9D" bold="true" box="[197,357,1018,1044]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Distribution.</emphasis>
The Sonoran Desert of southern California and southwestern Arizona.
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FF37FBEB383DFBB0" bold="true" box="[197,322,1055,1081]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Remarks.</emphasis>
This species is rare, but is found throughout southern California and extends into southern Arizona and northern
<collectingCountry id="A0F8767DC758FFA6FE6EFBB13885FBD6" box="[412,506,1093,1119]" name="Mexico" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Mexico</collectingCountry>
.
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created some problems with this species in combination with
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(Pitts
<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FEB4FB9F38FEFB0D" box="[326,385,1131,1156]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">et al.</emphasis>
2009)
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.
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<bibRefCitation id="BC7E4B1CC758FFA6FF37FB643800FB23" author="Schuster" box="[197,383,1168,1194]" pageId="5" pageNumber="34" refString="Schuster, R. M. (1958) A revision of the sphaeropthalmine Mutillidae of America north of Mexico. II. Entomologica Americana, 37, 1 - 130." type="journal article" year="1958">Schuster (1958)</bibRefCitation>
placed this species as a subspecies of
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FCCEFB643AD1FB20" box="[828,942,1168,1193]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">O. adonis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Mickel (
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) established this was not conspecific with
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FE3FFB413B3CFB47" box="[461,579,1205,1230]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">O. adonis</emphasis>
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. This species clearly belongs in the
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FC0DFB413D14FB47" box="[1023,1131,1205,1230]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">O. parva</emphasis>
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species-group due to the weak ventral mandibular tooth, overall mandibular shape, the bidentate metasternum, the well developed sternal felt line, and the granulate pygidium. This species differs from all other species of the
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species-group due to the shape of the mesosternal processes, which are high, oblique, anteroposteriorly compressed, rectangular in outline, bidentate at the apex and separated by a U shaped sinus. Only three other species,
<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FEF6FA843B73FA00" box="[260,524,1392,1417]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<taxonomicName id="1FEF4D6EC758FFA6FEF6FA8438F2FA00" box="[260,397,1392,1417]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Odontophotopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bellona">O. bellona</taxonomicName>
,
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and an undescribed species, have similar, but not identical mesosternal processes. Of these, only
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FE20FA613B2BFA27" box="[466,596,1429,1454]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">O. bellona</emphasis>
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has been collected at Deep Canyon thus far; it has a large, rounded, ventral tooth on the mandible (
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; see
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Fig.
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in
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).
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FBDCFA4F3C3DFA5D" box="[1070,1346,1467,1492]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Odontophotopsis parva</emphasis>
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has the apex of the mandibles parallel, the pygidium distinctly margined, while
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<emphasis id="EA9BEAFFC758FFA6FBD2FA143DD8FA70" box="[1056,1191,1504,1529]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">O. acmaea</emphasis>
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has the apex of the mandibles dilated, the pygidium not margined. Furthermore the mesosternal processes are rounded at the apex and are separated by a V shaped sinus. The undescribed species also has a margined pygidium, but the shape of the mandible, which could be described as dilated, is unique in having a dorsally directed lamella at the apex of the tridentate mandible that is similar in shape and size to normal tooth.
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