Published January 11, 2024 | Version v1
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Cephalotilla Bischoff 1920

  • 1. Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode 673006, Kerala, India. & University of Calicut, Thenhipalam, Malappuram, Kerala, India- 673635
  • 2. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.
  • 3. Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode 673006, Kerala, India.

Description

Key to the Oriental females of Cephalotilla

1. T2 apically and T3 with band of golden setae. Head, scape and legs black. Pygidial plate mostly black or dark brown. 7.35–7.84 mm. India ..................................... C. manikandani Terine, Lelej & Girish Kumar, sp. nov. (Fig. 1–6)

– T2 apically and T3 with band of yellow setae. Head, scape and legs ferruginous. Pygidial plate ferruginous. 6.0– 7.2 mm. Sri Lanka .............................................. C. porcella (Turner, 1911) (See Lelej, 2023: pg. 7; Fig. 4–6)

Notes

Published as part of Terine, Joshua B., Lelej, Arkady S. & Kumar, Girish P., 2024, Discovery of a new species of the genus Cephalotilla Bischoff, 1920 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from India, pp. 190-194 in Zootaxa 5399 (2) on page 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/10494387

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bischoff
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Mutillidae
Genus
Cephalotilla
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cephalotilla Bischoff, 1920 sec. Terine, Lelej & Kumar, 2024

References

  • Turner, R. E. (1911) New Hymenoptera from Ceylon. Mutillidae and Scoliidae. Spolia Zeylanica, 7 (27), 141 - 154.
  • Lelej, A. S. (2023) Review of the tribe Ctenotillini (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Oriental and Palaearctic Regions. Far Eastern Entomologist, 480, 1 - 22. https: // doi. org / 10.25221 / fee. 480.1