Dentilla arabica
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Description
13. Dentilla arabica (Hammer, 1962)
(Figs 51–53)
Smicromyrme arabica Hammer, 1962: 32, ♀, holotype, " Fiyush Dist [rict] near Aden [Yemen], 1915 // Ind [ian] Mus [eum], [R.B.S.] Sewell, Desert fauna" [NZC].
Dentilla arabica: Lelej & van Harten 2006: 22, ♀; Lo Cascio et al. 2012: 541, fig. 13, ♀; Pagliano et al. 2020: 170, ♀; Gadallah et al. 2020: 145, ♀.
Diagnosis. FEMALE. Head, mesosoma and legs ferruginous red, metasoma black, T2 with round medial basal spot and narrow marginal band slightly protruding in the middle, T3–4 with broad band, all with pale golden setae. Scutellar scale not very distinct, hardly protruding, pygidial area with parallel striae diverging apically. Body length 7.0 mm. MALE. Unknown.
Material examined (2♀). Type material. Paratype of Smicromyrme arabica Hammer, 1962: 1 ♀, Fiyush Dist [rict] near Aden [Yemen], 1915 // Ind [ian] Mus [eum], [R.B.S.] Sewell, Desert fauna // Paratype // Smicromyrme arabica, m[ihi], Type, ♀, det. Hammer " [NHMW]. Other material. Yemen: Wadi Bana, 26.X.1992, A.van Harten, 1♀ [ZMAN].
Distribution. Yemen.
Remarks. Dentilla arabica may be the opposite sex of D. testacea or D. ehrenbergi, since all three species were collected from nearby localities (Lelej & van Harten 2006).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hammer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Mutillidae
- Genus
- Dentilla
- Species
- arabica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dentilla arabica (Hammer, 1962) sec. Lelej, 2025
References
- Hammer, K. (1962 [1960]) Mutilliden (Insecta: Hymenoptera) aus dem Indischen Museum in Calcutta. Records of the Indian Museum, 58 (1), 1-51. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v58/i1/1960/161983
- Lelej, A. S. & van Harten, A. (2006) A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Yemen. Zootaxa, 1226 (1), 1-50. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1226.1.1
- Lo Cascio, P., Romano, M. & Grita, F. (2012) New species and new records of mutillid wasps from the Socotra Archipelago (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 52 (Supplement 2), 525-544.
- Pagliano, G., Brothers, D. J., Cambra, R., Lelej, A. S., Lo Cascio, P., Matteini Palmerini, M., Scaramozzino, P. L., Williams, K. A. & Romano, M. (2020 [" 2018 "]) Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, 36 (1 - 2), 5-425.
- Gadallah, N. S., Lelej, A. S. & Bothers, D. J. (2020) Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Mutillidae. Zootaxa, 4754 (1), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.15