Dasymutilla xalisco (Blake)

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 : 104

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1

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scientific name

Dasymutilla xalisco (Blake)
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Dasymutilla xalisco (Blake)

Mutilla (Sphaeropthalma) xalisco Blake, 1871 . Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 3:245. Holotype female, Mexico (No. 4507) [ANSP] (examined).

Diagnosis of Female (Plate C10A). This species is differentiated from others by the following combination of characters. The antennal scrobe of this female is ecarinate. The gena is weakly carinate. The mesosoma is longer than broad, and possesses a scutellar scale. Tergum II is without maculae. The integument of the mesosoma is not red. There is a quadrate area of black setae on tergum II anteromedially, with that area produced posteriorly in the middle.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Mexico (Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca).

Remarks. This species is known only from the female. It is known from fewer than a dozen specimens. All known specimens have been examined.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mutillidae

Genus

Dasymutilla

Loc

Dasymutilla xalisco (Blake)

MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P. 2007
2007
Loc

Mutilla (Sphaeropthalma) xalisco

Blake 1871
1871
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