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Systematic revision of the North American velvet ant genus Invreiella Suárez (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with description of eleven new species

  • 1. Utah State University, Department of Biology, Logan, Utah, USA. & gcwaldren@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0007-1090 & james.pitts@usu.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1062-3258
  • 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
  • 3. Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Estafeta Universitaria Apartado 00017, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá 0824, República de Panamá. & cambramiup60@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3799-4710

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Waldren, George C., Williams, Kevin A., Cambra, Roberto A., Pitts, James P. (2020): Systematic revision of the North American velvet ant genus Invreiella Suárez (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with description of eleven new species. Zootaxa 4894 (2): 151-205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.2.1

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