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Issue: Vol. 4559 No. 3: 21 Feb. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-02-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.3.8
Page range: 573–576
Abstract views: 75
PDF downloaded: 3

Male description of Horcomutilla projectifrons (Cresson, 1902) Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) and the first host record for the genus

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, Brasil. Laboratório de Estudos Ecológicos em Etologia e Evolução – Lestes, Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brasil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Laboratório de Hymenoptera, Av. André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e Ambientais, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Rodovia Dourados-Itahum, km 12, Cidade Universitária, Caixa Postal 364 79804-970, Dourados, MS, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e Ambientais, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Rodovia Dourados-Itahum, km 12, Cidade Universitária, Caixa Postal 364 79804-970, Dourados, MS, Brazil
Hymenoptera Mutillidae

Abstract

Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are solitary wasps whose larvae act as ectoparasitoids of encapsulated immatures of other insects, especially other solitary Hymenoptera (Luz et al. 2016). The natural history of most mutillids is unknown; for example, only 2–3% of the species have their hosts reported (Brothers 1989). Apidae species, however, are among the hymenopterans most commonly parasitized by velvet ants, with over 30 recorded cases in literature involving different genera of both host and parasite (Luz et al. 2016).

 

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