Lehritilla ianthis ( Turner, 1911 ) Lelej, 2023

Lelej, A. S., 2023, Review of the tribe Ctenotillini (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Oriental and Palaearctic regions, Far Eastern Entomologist 480, pp. 1-22 : 14-16

Lehritilla ianthis ( Turner, 1911) , comb. n.

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Mutilla ianthis Turner, 1911: 142, 144, ♀, syntypes, " Hambantota, Ceylon (Fletcher), November " [ BMNH] .

Pristomutilla ianthis : Nonveiller, 1995: 33, 115, ♀; Lelej, 2005: 36, 176, ♀; Pagliano et al., 2020: 165.

MATERIAL EXAMINED (12♀). Sri Lanka: Jaffna District: 16 km S of Pooneryn, 24–25.I 1977, 1♀ (KVK, PF, DWB, VG) [ USNM]; Mannar District: Ma Villu , 17–21.II 1979, 1♀ (KVK, TW, SS, TG) [ USNM]; 0.8 km NE of Kokmotte Bungalow, 50–100 ft [15–30 m], 21–25.V 1976, 1♀ (KVK, PBK, SK, DWB) [ USNM]; the same locality but 22–23.I 1977, 1♀ (KVK et al.) / Prisromutilla ianthis (Turner) , B. Petersen det., 1984 [ IBSS]; Amparai District , Lahugala Sanctuary, 13–15.VI 1976, 2♀ [ USNM]; Monaragala District : Angunakolapelessa, 27–28.III 1981, 1♀ (KVK, TW, LW [ USNM]; Hambantota Disrict: Hambantota, 28, 29.XI 1908 (T.B. Fletcher), 2♀ [ NMC]; same locality, 29.III–2.IV 1981, 1♀ (KVK, TW, LW) [ USNM]; N 374 [probably Hambantota], 1♀ [ NMC]. South India, Karnataka, 15 km N Bangalore, KT, 25.VII 1996, 1♀ (K. Werner, L. Lorenz) [ MSNF] .

Figs 24–29. 24–26 – Lehritilla lanka , holotype, ♂; 27–29 – Denistilla pauli , ♂. 24, 25, 27, 28 – habitus (24, 27 – dorsal view, 25, 28 – lateral view); 26, 29 – S7–8 (26 – lateroventral view, 29 – ventral view. tub – lateral tubercle. (Photographs by V. Loktionov –24, 25).

DISTRIBUTION. Sri Lanka, India: Karnataka.

REMARKS. Probably the females collected by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher in Hambantota in 1908 [ NMC] are the syntypes .