Dasymutilla imperialis Manley and Pitts

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, Zootaxa 1487 (1), pp. 1-128 : 58

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5790FDAC-C5EE-4ED3-AECE-33C0851E956E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5086630
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0382CB48-CB25-C214-CEF6-FDA4FEC7C528
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Dasymutilla imperialis Manley and Pitts
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Dasymutilla imperialis Manley and Pitts, 2004 . J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 77:646. Holotype male, California, Imperial County, Glamis Dunes , 1 mi. W. Glamis, 7 October 1988 (T. Griswold) [EMUS] (examined).

Diagnosis of Male (Plate C5C). This recently-described species is easily identified by having both the integument and the setae entirely black, and by the presence of a pit filled with setae on sternum II. Also, the antennal scrobe is weakly carinate dorsally, and the pygidium lacks an apical fringe of setae.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. USA (California); Mexico (Baja California Sur).

Remarks. This species is known only from the male and from only nine specimens, all of which have been examined.