Radoszkowskitilla aulica (Smith, 1855) Lelej, 2020

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 : 4-6

Radoszkowskitilla aulica (Smith, 1855) , comb. n.

Figs 1–4

Mutilla aulica Smith, 1855: 37 , ♀, type " Northern India ", syntypes in BMNH; Sichel &

Radoszkowski, 1869: 158, 1870: 258, ♀ (? Northern India); Cameron, 1892: 117, pl. 1 ,

fig. 4, ♀, North India, Poona [Pune, Maharashtra]; André , 1894: 476, 482; Cameron ,

1897: 82, ♀, Dalla Torre , 1897: 13 , ♀, India ; Bingham, 1897: 4, 13, ♀, Northern India ,

Ceylon [ Sri Lanka]; André , 1902: 38, ♀ , India.

Trogaspidia aulica: Lelej, 2005: 88 , ♀, Northern India, Maharashtra; Pagliano et al., 2020:

279, India.

Radoszkowskitilla karnataka Lelej, 2005: 76 , 190, ♀, ♂, holotype, ♀, India, Karnataka, 15 km

N Bangalore, KT, 23–24.VII 1996, K. Werner & L. Lorenz [MZUF], examined, syn. n.;

Pagiano et al., 2020: 259, ♀, ♂, figs 408, 409.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Paratypes of Radoszkowskitilla karnataka , India :

3♂, with the same labels as holotype. Additional naterial. Pakistan: North-West

Frontier [currently Khyber Pakhtunkhwa], Peshawar, Forestry Campus of

Agricultural University, 14–26.VIII 2005, 1 ♀ (S.V. Ovchinnikov) [ IBSS] .

DISTRIBUTION. * Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; India: North India, Maharashtra, Karnataka. Probably widely distributed in India.

REMARKS. For a long time we discussed with late B. Petersen the status of

Mutilla aulica Smith, 1855 described from North Pakistan (former North India)

Børge Petersen who have had possibilities to study the species described by F.

Smith from Oriental region and regarded my Indratilla ceylonica Lelej, 1993 as junior synonym of Trogaspidia aulica (Smith, 1855) (Petersen, in litt., 1993).

According to the original description (Smith, 1855) the female of Mutilla aulica

Smith differs from the female of ceylonica Lelej by having spots of bright silvery setae on each side of T3 and T4 (such spots located in ceylonica on T2 posterad and

T3. When I studied the female from Peshawar (North Pakistan, type locality of aulica Smith and the photos of female aulica identified by B. Petersen in the National holotype. 1, 2, 5, 6 – habitus (1, 5 – lateral view, 2, 6 –dorsal view); 3, 7 – face view; 4, 8 –

T6, pygidial area.

Pusa collection, New Delhi, India (many thanks for Nithya Chandran for that) I accepted the idea that aulica belongs to the genus Radoszkowskitilla . In this genus aulica related with R. karnataka Lelej, 2005 which is known by female and male and I regard the latter as a junior subjective synonym of aulica .

Figures

Figs 1–8. 1–4 – Radoszkowskitilla aulica, ♀; 5–8 – Taiwanumyrme cheni sp. n., ♀,