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Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov 2002

  • 1. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia. lelej @ biosoil. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7501 - 0981
  • 2. Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA. Kevin. Williams @ cdfa. ca. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6073 - 1070

Description

23. Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002

(Figs 77–79)

Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002: 94, ♁, ♀; Lelej 2002: 63; Lelej & Osten 2004: 257; Pagliano & Strumia 2007: 83; Lelej & Brothers 2008: 56; Lelej & Yildirim 2009: 17; Muskovits & György 2011: 106; Brothers & Lelej 2017: 96, ♁, ♀; Pagliano et al. 2020: 187.

Type species. Mutilla elongata Radoszkowski 1885, ♁, by original designation.

Diagnosis. MALE. Mandible usually tridentate with large subbasal tooth beneath (S. turanica (Morawitz, 1893) with bidentate mandible and without large subbasal tooth currently is placed in Smicromyrme incertae sedis AL). Volsella with long cuspis apically often curved inside, basivolsella with large external lobe curved upward. Volsella apically and basivolsella with long suberect setae. Clypeus basally with longitudinal median carina-like elevation which flattened anterad and widened triangularly forming plate with obscure border. Mesopleuron ventrally without precoxal tooth. Metasomal bands of pale setae weaker than in Nemka. FEMALE. Pygidial plate triangularlyelongated, basally weakly curved and widened, lateral carina weakly widened apically; densely longitudinally striate, striae slightly divergent from median line. Clypeus basally with median wide tubercle compressed dorsoventrally and curved up. T2 with medial large basal spot of pale setae and apical band of such setae medially widened triangularly or not widened. T3 with band of pale setae, T4 with lateral spot or large band of pale setae.

Diversity and distribution. Seven species are recognized from the Palaearctic, including S. sanguinicollis (Klug, 1829), comb. nov. (from the genus Ephutomma), but additional species will be likely discovered in Africa among Smicromyrme species.

Remarks. Although many of these species are nocturnal, they generally have coloration more typical of diurnal Smicromyrmini. A key to the Palaearctic males was provided by Lelej and Yildirim (2009).

Notes

Published as part of Lelej, Arkady S. & Williams, Kevin A., 2023, Review of the tribe Smicromyrmini Bischoff, 1920 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), pp. 101-140 in Zootaxa 5231 (2) on pages 127-128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7575308

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ovtchinnikov
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Mutillidae
Genus
Skorikovia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002 sec. Lelej & Williams, 2023

References

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