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Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel 1928

Description

Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel

Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel, 1928. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:271. Holotype male, Willcox, Arizona, July 31, 1909 (A. K. Fisher) (No. 40749) [USNM] (examined).

Diagnosis of Male (Plate C8I). This male has the apices of the middle and hind femora squarely truncate, with the surface of the outer lobe being sulcate. Also, the integument of the metasoma is ferruginous. The tibial spurs are white, and the head is clothed with pale setae, being silver to white. The setae of the metasoma are entirely ferruginous to orange.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. USA (Arizona, Texas); Mexico (Morelos, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora).

Remarks. This species is known only from the male. It is a relatively uncommon species, and only about a dozen specimens have been examined.

Notes

Published as part of MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 1487 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5086787

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Event date
1909-07-31
Verbatim event date
1909-07-31
Scientific name authorship
Mickel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Mutillidae
Genus
Dasymutilla
Species
sophrona
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel, 1928 sec. MANLEY & PITTS, 2007

References

  • Mickel, C. E. (1928) Biological and taxonomic investigations on the mutillid wasps. United States Museum Bulletin, 143, 1 - 351.