Dasymutilla xalisco (Blake)

MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, Zootaxa 1487 (1), pp. 1-128 : 104

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Dasymutilla xalisco (Blake)
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Mutilla (Sphaeropthalma) xalisco Blake, 1871 . Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 3:245. Holotype female, Mexico (No. 4507) [ANSP] (examined).

Diagnosis of Female (Plate C10A). This species is differentiated from others by the following combination of characters. The antennal scrobe of this female is ecarinate. The gena is weakly carinate. The mesosoma is longer than broad, and possesses a scutellar scale. Tergum II is without maculae. The integument of the mesosoma is not red. There is a quadrate area of black setae on tergum II anteromedially, with that area produced posteriorly in the middle.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Mexico (Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca).

Remarks. This species is known only from the female. It is known from fewer than a dozen specimens. All known specimens have been examined.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Mutillidae
Genus	Dasymutilla