Promecidia birmanica (de Dalla Torre, 1897)

Lelej, Arkady S., Zhou, Hu-ting, Loktionov, Valery M. & Xu, Zai-fu, 2016, Review of the genus Promecidia Lelej, 1996, with description of two new species from China (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae, Trogaspidiini), ZooKeys 641, pp. 103-120 : 109-110

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.641.10765

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DB02F5C3-7B23-4289-B9DD-0A92B47D821F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F1468CCB-FD80-50DB-EDB8-84363C184B98

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scientific name

Promecidia birmanica (de Dalla Torre, 1897)
status

 

Promecidia birmanica (de Dalla Torre, 1897)

Mutilla birmanica de Dalla Torre, 1897: 16. New name for Mutilla schlettereri Magretti, 1892.

Mutilla schlettereri Magretti, 1892: 230, tab. 5, fig. 19, ♂, nom. praeocc., nec Morawitz, 1890, holotype, ♂, "Monti dei Carin–Chebá, Giugno 1888" [mountain area (1000-1200 m) in the Karen Hills of southeastern Myanmar, in the Tenasserim Mountain Range] (MSNG).

Promecidia birmanica : Lelej 2005: 80, ♂.

Promecidia ninnii : Lelej 2005: 81, part., ♂ (Laos, India: Assam).

Material examined.

LAOS: 1 ♂ (MRSN). INDIA: 1 ♂ (CAS), Assam, Kohara, Kaziranga, 110 m, 7.X.1961, E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavangaro. MYANMAR: 1 ♂ (IBSS), Palaing [16°32'28"N 97°57'34"E], V.1937, R. Perego. VIETNAM: 2 ♂ (IBSS), 70 km NE Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh), Ma de, VIII. 1994, Belyaeva.

Diagnosis.

Male. Body length 10.4-12.0 mm (holotype 12.0 mm). Mandible slightly widened beneath at base, without small subbasal denticle. Penial valves shortened, slightly longer than digitus, apically capitate. Mesosoma black. Metasoma black with segments 1-3 yellowish-orange. Female unknown.

Distribution.

Myanmar, India, Laos, Vietnam.

Comments.

Possibly, this species is the male of Promecidia ninnii (Magretti, 1892). Both are distributed in Myanmar and Vietnam.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mutillidae

Genus

Promecidia