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Pseudomethoca sonorae Williams 2023
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
Pseudomethoca sonorae Williams, 2023, ♂ ♀
(Figs 41, 72)
Pseudomethoca sonorae Williams, 2023: 117.
Identification. FEMALE and MALE. See Williams (2023)
Distribution. USA: Arizona.
Local material examined. USA, Arizona, Cochise Co.: KT, manual, K.A. Williams, 5.IX.2025 (1♀, CSCA; Fig. 41); KT.MT, W.R. Radke and K.A. Williams: 20.VIII–3.IX.2024 (1♂, CSCA; Fig. 72).
Remarks. This rare species was only recently described (Williams 2023). We have seen material only from 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 71, 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
- 2024-08-20
- Verbatim event date
- 2024-08-20/2025-09-05
- Scientific name authorship
- Williams
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Mutillidae
- Genus
- Pseudomethoca
- Species
- sonorae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudomethoca sonorae Williams, 2023 sec. Williams & Radke, 2026
References
- Williams, K. A. (2023) Taxonomic updates for diurnal velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in the United States of America. Zootaxa, 5301 (1), 105-123. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5301.1.5