Radoszkowskitilla Lelej, 2005

Lelej, A. S., 2020, TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF VELVET ANTS OF THE GENERA ARTIOTILLA INVREA, RADOSZKOWSKITILLA LELEJ AND TAIWANOMYRME TSUNEKI (HYMENOPTERA: MUTILLIDAE), Far Eastern Entomologist 410, pp. 1-10 : 4

Genus Radoszkowskitilla Lelej, 2005

Indratilla: Lelej 1993: 233 , part., ♀ non ♂.

Radoszkowskitilla Lelej, 2005: 75 , 187, figs 190–196. ♀, ♂; Lelej & Brothers 2008: 51;

Brothers & Lelej 2017: 60, 96; Pagliano et al. 2020: 258, figs 407–409.

Type species: Indratilla ceylonica Lelej, 1993 , by original designation.

SPECIES INCLUDED. Including current data the genus numbers three species:

Radoszkowskitilla aulica (Smith, 1855) , comb. n., R. ceylonica (Lelej, 1993) and R.

sinhala Lelej, 2005 .

DISTRIBUTION. Oriental region: Sri Lanka, India, * Pakistan.

REMARKS. The male of Radoszkowskitilla differs from male of Palaearctic

Artiotilla by lacking any felt line on sternum 2 (short line in Artiotilla ), by having longitudinal shiny medial line on mesoscutellum (lacking in Artiotilla ), by sparse pale setae on T3 and T4 (well developed band of pale setae in Artiotilla ). The female of Radoszkowskitilla differs from that of Artiotilla by having weakly sculptured carinated pygidial area (indistinct, not carinated in Artiotilla ), by mandible without inner subbasal tooth (with such tooth in Artiotilla ), by T2 posteriorly and

T3 with 2 spots of silver setae (T2 posteriorly without spots, T3 with band of yello-

wish setae in Artiotilla ).