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Issue: Vol. 4362 No. 1: 4 Dec. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-12-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.8
Page range: 135–140
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Observation of a mixed-sex, mixed-species aggregation of velvet ants, genus Timulla Ashmead, 1899 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in the Brazilian Amazon, Roraima, with a new synonymy

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Laboratório de Hymenoptera, Av. André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Utah State University, Department of Biology, Logan, Utah 84322, USA
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Laboratório de Hymenoptera, Av. André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Hymenoptera Mutillidae

Abstract

An aggregation of two males of Timulla bitaeniata (Spinola, 1841), three single males T. rufogastra (Lepeletier, 1845) and another two males T. rufogastra (Lepeletier, 1845) in copula with two females of T. eriphyla Mickel, 1938 is documented, described and discussed. A new synonymy is proposed for Mutilla rufogastra Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1845 [=Timulla (Timulla) eriphyla Mickel, 1938, syn. nov.] based on the mating pairs.

 

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