Odontophotopsis dentifera Schuster

Pitts, James P., 2007, Revision of Odontophotopsis Viereck (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), Part 1, with a description of a new Genus Laminatilla, Zootaxa 1619, pp. 1-43 : 9-10

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.179151

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6242173

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Odontophotopsis dentifera Schuster
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Odontophotopsis dentifera Schuster

( Figs. 6, 7, 9, 10 View FIGURES 1 – 12 )

Odontophotopsis (Odontophotopsis) dentifera Schuster, 1958 . Ent. Amer. (n. s.) 37: 47, male. Holotype: Mexico, Baja California, Purissima, W.M. Mann (NMNH).

Diagnosis. This species can be separated from other species in this group by the following combination of characters: the ocellar area is concolorous with head, the ocellocular distance is 1.7–2.4X the width of the lateral ocellus, the ventral margin of the mandible has a distinct rounded tooth ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 1 – 12 ), the mesosternal processes are bidentate, the lamellate process of the middle coxa is longer than wide ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1 – 12 ), and the cuspis usually has four slender apical setae ( Figs. 9, 10 View FIGURES 1 – 12 ).

Distribution. The Baja California Desert of Baja California and Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Material examined. MEXICO, Baja California Sur: Canipolé, 10 mi SW, 1 male, 28.Aug.1959, K.W. Radford and F.G. Werner ( UAIC); nr Canipolé, 2 males, 2.Nov.1982, R.L. Westcott ( FSCA); La Paz, 15 mi W, 1 male, 5.Jul.1938, Michelbacher and Ross ( UMSP); Palmarita, 1 male, Oct., W.M. Mann ( UMSP); Mulegé, 4.5 mi S, nr dunes, 1 male, 13.Sep.1983, Smith and Evans ( UCDC); Puerto Escondido, Loreto, 1 male, 23.Jun.1991, R. Shaver ( UCDC); Purissima, 7 male paratypes, W.M. Mann ( NMNH); San José Del Cabo, 10 mi SW, 5 males, 1.Sep.1959, K.W. Radford and F.G. Werner ( UAIC).

UAIC

University of Arizona

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

UMSP

University of Minnesota Insect Collection

UCDC

R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Odontophotopsis

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Odontophotopsis dentifera Schuster

Pitts, James P. 2007
2007
Loc

Odontophotopsis (Odontophotopsis) dentifera

Schuster 1958
1958
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