Dasymutilla eurynome Mickel, 1928

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 : 50

Dasymutilla eurynome Mickel

Dasymutilla eurynome Mickel, 1928 . U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:209. Holotype female, Valentine , Presidio County, Texas, July 8, 1917 (J. Bequaert) [UMSP] (examined).

Diagnosis of Female (Plate C4J). The key characters of this species are that flagellomere I is long, about 2X as long as wide at the apex, which also is about as long as II and III united, and coloration. There are no definite areas of black setae on the head and mesosoma of this species. The posterior face of the propodeum is clothed with dense, pale setae. Neither the antennal scrobe nor the gena are carinate, and the posterolateral angle of the head is not tuberculate. The mesosoma is longer than broad, and possesses a scutellar scale, and tergum II is coarsely punctate.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. USA (Texas); Mexico (Nayarit).

Remarks. This species, known only from the female, seems to be closely related to D. bonita . It keys reasonably well except for couplet #37, relative length of flagellomere I, which is always open to interpretation but only affects the two aforementioned species. There are no definite areas of black setae on the head and mesosoma of D. eurynome , which distinguishes it from D. bonita .

This is a relatively uncommon species known from less than a dozen specimens. All known specimens have been examined.