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Sphaeropthalma baboquivari Schuster 1958

  • 1. Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA kevin. williams @ cdfa. ca. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6073 - 1070
  • 2. Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA kevin. williams @ cdfa. ca. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6073 - 1070 & U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, San Bernardino-Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuges, P. O. Box 3509, 7628 N. Highway 191, Douglas, AZ 85608 billradke 238 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0006 - 3918 - 0979 Corresponding author & Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA kevin. williams @ cdfa. ca. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6073 - 1070

Description

Sphaeropthalma baboquivari Schuster, 1958, ♂

Sphaeropthalma (Photopsis) baboquivari Schuster, 1958: 24.

Identification. FEMALE. Unknown. MALE. See Schuster (1958).

Distribution. USA: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah.

Local material examined. USA, Arizona, Cochise Co., Huachuca Mountains, Hunter Canyon, 31.404 - 110.246, 1570m, lantern trap, 4–5.VIII.2024, E.E., J.D., and K.A. Williams (4♂, CSCA).

Remarks. This rare species has been found at both high and low elevation.

Notes

Published as part of Williams, Kevin A. & Radke, William R., 2026, When the peaks are not the pinnacle: velvet ant (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae and Myrmosidae) diversity near the Huachuca Mountains in Arizona, USA, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 5800 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5800.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21173384

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CSCA
Event date
2024-08-04
Verbatim event date
2024-08-04/05
Scientific name authorship
Schuster
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Mutillidae
Genus
Sphaeropthalma
Species
baboquivari
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sphaeropthalma baboquivari Schuster, 1958 sec. Williams & Radke, 2026

References

  • Schuster, R. M. (1958) A Revision of the sphaeropthalmine Mutillidae of America north of Mexico. II. Entomologica Americana, 37, 1-130.