Pagdenidia Lelej, 1996

Williams, Kevin A., Lelej, Arkady S., Okayasu, Juriya, Borkent, Christopher J., Malee, Rufeah, Thoawan, Kodeeyah & Thaochan, Narit, 2019, The female velvet ants (aka modkhong) of southern Thailand (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with a key to the genera of southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4602 (1), pp. 1-69 : 39

Genus 26. Pagdenidia Lelej, 1996

Diagnosis. FEMALE. See the key above and the following papers: Lelej (1996c) and Pagden (1949: treated as the Trogaspidia erato species-group). MALE. See Lelej (1996c).

Diversity and Distribution. Seven Oriental species are recognized, including P. hymalajensis ( Radoszkowski, 1885) and P. mickeli ( Pagden, 1949) , which are known from Thailand.

Remarks. This genus is rare, and although two species are known from Thailand, our expeditions did not recover any specimens. Pagdenidia mickeli is known from Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand, even though none were available for this study, we included it in the key to species from southern Thailand based on the description by Pagden (1949). The photographed specimen ( Fig. 23 ) is from Chiang Mai Province and could be the unknown female of P. hymalajensis ( Radoszkowski, 1885) .

Figures

FIGURES 1–28. Mutillidae, dorsal habitus of females. Scale bars represent actual specimen length.