Mutilla mikado Cameron, 1900

Lelej, Arkady S., Williams, Kevin A., Terine, Joshua B., Okayasu, Juriya, Parikh, Grishma R. & Kumar, Girish P., 2023, Review of the tribe Mutillini (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from the Oriental Region, Zootaxa 5228 (4), pp. 455-476 : 467-468

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.4.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7541928

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/583A87D7-A333-FFDD-FF29-F90DCC15D679

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scientific name

Mutilla mikado Cameron, 1900
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Mutilla mikado Cameron, 1900

( Figs 1–4 View FIGURES 1–6 )

Mutilla mikado Cameron, 1900 ; 75, ♀, type locality [“ Japan ”]

Mutilla rugiceps maesta Chen, 1957: 151 , ♀, holotype, ♀, Kirin [Heilongjiang], Kaolintze [Gaolinzi], 16.vi.1940 [Heude Museum, Shanghai (now Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences)]. Junior subjective synonym of M. mikado according to Lelej 1985: 161.

Mutilla europaea: Su et al. 2019: 104 , parasite of Bombus breviceps View in CoL ( China: Yunnan). Misidentification.

Material examined. RUSSIA: * Kuril Islands, SW Kunashir, Ivanovskij Cape , 28– 29.09.2013, Yu. & L. Sundukov, 2♀ [ IBSS] . CHINA: * Sichuan, 35 km W Zhangle , 3620–3720 m, 12–13.VII.2001, S. Murzin, 1♀ [ IBSS] ; * Shaanxi, S of Huaxian, SE Damingzhen, Huashan Mts. , 2010–2155 m, 24.V.2009, I. Belousov & I. Kabak, 1♀ [ IBSS] .

Distribution. Russia: Eastern Siberia (south), Far East (Amurskaya oblast, Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai, Sakhalin, *Kuril Islands (Kunashir)); China (Gansu, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Neimenggu, Shanxi, * Shaanxi, * Sichuan, Zhejiang, Yunnan), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku), North Korea, South Korea.

Remarks. Unlike the other species treated here, Mutilla mikado is predominantly a Palaearctic species and only occurs in a few Oriental areas of China. In some older papers (e. g., Chen 1957), this species was treated as a subspecies of Mutilla europaea Linnaeus, 1758 . More recently, Mutilla europaea was recorded as a parasite of Bombus breviceps Smith, 1852 , in Yunnan, China, but the mutillid in question was later determined to be Mutilla mikado , which is the only Mutilla species known to occur in Oriental regions of China.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mutillidae

Genus

Mutilla

Loc

Mutilla mikado Cameron, 1900

Lelej, Arkady S., Williams, Kevin A., Terine, Joshua B., Okayasu, Juriya, Parikh, Grishma R. & Kumar, Girish P. 2023
2023
Loc

Mutilla rugiceps maesta

Chen, C. 1957: 151
1957
Loc

Mutilla mikado

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