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Dasymutilla erythrina
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
Dasymutilla erythrina (Say, 1836), ♂ ♀
(Fig. 48)
Mutilla erythrina Say, 1836: 297.
Dasymutilla formicalia Rohwer, 1912: 463.
Dasymutilla fulgida Mickel, 1928: 76.
Dasymutilla pallida Mickel, 1937a: 186.
Identification. FEMALE and MALE. See Manley et al. (2020).
Distribution. Mexico: Chiapas, Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Durango, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Puebla, Queretaro; USA: Arizona.
Local material examined. USA, Arizona, Cochise Co., KT.MT, W.R. Radke and K.A. Williams, 27.VI– 11.VII.2024 (1♂, CSCA; Fig. 48).
Remarks. This is apparently the most common Dasymutilla species in Mexico (Williams et al. 2024), but it is not commonly encountered in Arizona. A single male was collected at the KT site in 2024. Dasymutilla erythrina occurs at both high and low elevations.
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 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5800.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21173384
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CSCA
- Event date
- 2024-06-27
- Verbatim event date
- 2024-06-27/07-11
- Scientific name authorship
- Say
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Mutillidae
- Genus
- Dasymutilla
- Species
- erythrina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dasymutilla erythrina (Say, 1836) sec. Williams & Radke, 2026
References
- Say, T. (1836) Descriptions of new species of North American Hymenoptera, and observations on some already described. Boston Journal of Natural History, 1, 295-298.
- Rohwer, S. A. (1912) Descriptions of new species of wasps in the collections of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, 41, 447-478. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.41-1869.447
- Mickel, C. E. (1928) Biological and taxonomic investigations on the mutillid wasps. United States National Museum, Bulletin, 143, 1-351, pls. 1 - 5. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.143.1
- Mickel, C. E. (1937 a) New world Mutillidae in the Spinola collection at Torino, Italy (Hymenoptera). Revista de Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, 7, 165-207.
- Manley, D. G., Williams, K. A. & Pitts, J. P. (2020) Keys to Nearctic Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with Notes on Taxonomic Changes since Krombein (1979). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 122 (2), 335-414. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.335
- Williams, K. A., Pan, A. D. & Wilson, J. S. (2024) Velvet ants of North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, Oxfordshire, 440 pp. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5104027