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Sphaeropthalma pinales Schuster 1958
Authors/Creators
- 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 pinales Schuster, 1958, ♂
Sphaeropthalma (Photopsis) pinales Schuster, 1958: 36.
Identification. FEMALE. Unknown. MALE. See Schuster (1958).
Distribution. USA: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah.
Local material examined. USA, Arizona, Cochise Co., Huachuca Mountains, Ramsey Canyon, 15 mi S Sierra Vista, VII.1968, Sternitsky (1♂, EMUS).
Remarks. This is an uncommon species that occurs at high 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 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5800.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21173384
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5800.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/21173384 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC1405FFFE1FF85565DFF87CB19FF98 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A431A105-E39B-47B1-A6E0-4C91403424AE (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03F83827FFD3FFB756CAFBB4C8CFFAF0 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- EMUS
- Scientific name authorship
- Schuster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Mutillidae
- Genus
- Sphaeropthalma
- Species
- pinales
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphaeropthalma pinales 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.