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

Odontophotopsis dentifera Schuster

( Figs. 6, 7, 9, 10 )

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 ), the mesosternal processes are bidentate, the lamellate process of the middle coxa is longer than wide ( Fig. 7 ), and the cuspis usually has four slender apical setae ( Figs. 9, 10 ).

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).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 12. Odontophotopsis cockerelli: Fig. 1. hind leg trochanter; Fig. 2. genitalia, lateral view, penal valve removed; Fig. 3. penal valve lateral view. Odontophotopsis denticoxa: Fig. 4. mandible; Fig. 5. middle coxa. Odontophotopsis dentifera: Fig. 6. mandible; Fig. 7. middle coxa; Fig. 9 genitalia, dorsal view; Fig. 10. cuspis, lateral view, dorsum to left. Odontophotopsis polis: Fig. 8. mandible; Fig. 11. genitalia, dorsal view; Fig. 12. lateral view, penal valve removed.