Psammotherma Latreille, 1825

Lelej, Arkady S. & Williams, Kevin A., 2023, Review of the tribe Smicromyrmini Bischoff, 1920 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), Zootaxa 5231 (2), pp. 101-140 : 122-123

19. Psammotherma Latreille, 1825

( Figs 61–62 )

Psammotherma Latreille, 1825: 453 , ♁; Lelej & Brothers 2008: 48; Brothers & Lelej 2017: 96, ♁; Pagliano et al. 2020: 184.

Type species. Mutilla flabellata Fabricius, 1804 , ♁, by subsequent monotypy of Latreille, 1829: 315.

Diagnosis. MALE. Head slightly narrower than thorax. Clypeus longitudinally convex, roof-like. Mandible tridentate, not widened apically, preapical inner teeth distinctly smaller than apical one, beneath with basal carina, without subbasal tooth.Ocelli small, POD much less than OOD. Flagellomeres overlapped, F1–7(10) with apophyses, double series of apophyses more or less equal in length. T2 with long lateral felt line, S2 with short lateral felt line. T7 black, without cuticular yellowish spot. FEMALE. Unknown.

Diversity and distribution. Four species, all known from males only, are recognized from South Africa. Remarks. Based on a recent molecular phylogenetic analysis (Waldren et al. in press), this genus belongs in a new tribe. There are no published keys that treat the species of Psammotherma .

Figures

FIGURES 61–66. 61–62. Psammotherma flabellata (Fabricius, 1804), ♁: 61. Lateral habitus, 62. Dorsal habitus; 63–65. Pseudocephalotillabeira (Péringuey,1914):63.♀,dorsalhabitus,64.♀,lateralhabitus,65.♁, lateralhabitus;66.Pseudocephalotilla tettensis (Gerstaecker in Peters, 1858), ♀, dorsal habitus. (Photographs by K. Williams, and D. Brothers (62–65)).