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Issue: Vol. 4418 No. 2: 7 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.2.1
Page range: 101–120
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Revision of the Oriental genus Zavatilla Tsuneki (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae,  Trogaspidiini), with descriptions of two new species

Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China.
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento CA 95832, USA.
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China.
Mutillinae Zavatilla new species Oriental Region China Hymenoptera

Abstract

Four species of the genus Zavatilla Tsuneki, 1993 are reviewed. An updated diagnosis of the genus is given and two new sex associations are proposed. Two new species, Z. xuzaifui Zhou, Lelej et Williams, sp. nov. (China: Guangdong, Yunnan, Hainan; Vietnam) and Z. nepalensis Zhou et Lelej, sp. nov. (Nepal) are described. Mutilla logei Zavattari, 1913 is proposed as junior synonym of Z. gutrunae (Zavattari, 1913). The status of Z. gutrunae flavotegulata (Chen, 1957) is updated to specific level. A key to the known species of Zavatilla is given for males and females.

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