Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4193 No. 2: 16 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.2.10
Page range: 361–372
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 1

The mutillid wasps of the Dasymutilla paradoxa species-group (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae)

Laboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento CA 95832, USA
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Laboratório de Hymenoptera, Av. André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Hymenoptera Sphaeropthalminae taxonomy Neotropical

Abstract

The Dasymutilla paradoxa species-group is newly proposed to include taxa formerly included in the genera Dasymutilla Ashmead, 1899, Traumatomutilla André, 1901 and some previously incertae sedis. This species-group now includes the following eight species: D. fasciventris Mickel, D. guanacaste Manley & Pitts, D. naranjo Manley & Pitts, D. paradoxa (Gerstaecker), comb. nov., D. paraparadoxa, sp. nov., D. phya (Cameron), comb. nov., D. relata (Cameron), and D. sliepniri Manley & Pitts. Dasymutilla paraparadoxa Luz, Bartholomay & Williams, sp. nov. (Mexico, Guatemala) is described and illustrated. New synonymy is proposed (valid names are first) for: Dasymutilla fasciventris Mickel, 1938 (=Dasymutilla citromaculosa Manley & Pitts, 2007, syn. nov., =Dasymutilla chamela Manley & Pitts, 2007, syn. nov.); Mutilla paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1874 (=Sphaerophthamla [sic!] icaris Cameron, 1895, syn. nov.); Sphaerophthalma [sic!] phya Cameron, 1895 (=Sphaerophthalma [sic!] melissa Cameron, 1895, syn. nov.). The key to species is given.

 

References

  1. André, E. (1901) Descriptions de quelques espèces et variétés nouvelles de Mutilles d'Amerique appartenant au Musée Civique de Gênes. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, 1, 257–264.

    Ashmead, W.H. (1899) Superfamilies in the Hymenoptera and generic synopses of the families Thynnidae, Myrmosidae, and Mutillidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 7, 45–60.

    Cambra, R.A. (1997) Comparacion de la diversidad en la Sphaeropthalminae (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) de Costa Rica y Panamá, con notas sobre biología. Scientia, 12 (2), 115–128.

    Cambra, R.A. & Quintero, D. (1992) Velvet ants of Panama: distribution and systematics (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). In: Quintero, D. & Aiello, A. (Eds.), Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 459–478.

    Cameron, P. (1894–1900) Fam. Mutillidae. In: Godman, F.D. & Salvin, O. (Eds), Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores.) II, R.H. Porter, London, (1894) 259–328; (1895) 329–376; (1896) 377–395; (1899) 404; (1900) iii, v, x–xi, 405–413. [plates. 13–14.]

    Cameron, P. (1897) New species of Hymenoptera from Central America. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 6), 19, 261–276, 368–379.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222939708680536

    Gerstaecker, A. (1874) Mutillarum Americae meridionalis indigenarum synopsis systematica et synonymica. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 40, 41–77, 299–328.

    Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1838) Première division. Crustacés, arachnides et insectes. In: Duperrey, L. I. (Ed) Voyage autour du monde, executé par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie. Tome deuxième. Part 2. H. Bertrand, Paris, pp. xii + 9–320.

    Manley, D.G. & Pitts, J.P. (2007) Tropical and subtropical velvet ants of the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with descriptions of 45 new species. Zootaxa, 1487, 1–128.

    Mickel, C.E. (1936) New species and records of nearctic mutillid wasps of the genus Dasymutilla (Hymenoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 29, 29–60.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/29.1.29

    Mickel, C.E. (1938) Synonymical notes and new species of Pseudomethoca and Dasymutilla (Mutillidae: Hymenoptera).Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 31, 147–156.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/31.2.147

    Nonveiller, G. (1990) Catalogue of the Mutillidae, Myrmosidae and Bradynobaenidae of the Neotropical Region including Mexico (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Hymenopterorum Catalogus (Nova Editio), 18. Den Haag, SPB Academic Publishing. 150 pp.

    Pilgrim, E.M., Williams, K.A. & Pitts, J.P. (2008) Sex association and synonymy in southwestern U.S. species of Dasymutilla (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 84 (1), 57–68.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3956/2007-13.1

    Pilgrim, E.M., Williams, K.A., Manley, D.G. & Pitts, J.P. (2009) Addressing the Dasymutilla quadriguttata species-group and species-complex (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae): several distinct species or a single, morphologically variable species?. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 82 (3), 231–249.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.2317/JKES08.11.1

    Quintero, D. & Cambra, R.A. (1996) Contributión a la sistemática de las Mutílidas (Hymenoptera) del Perú, en especial las de la Estación Biológica BIOLAT, Río Manu, Pakitza. In: Wilson, D.E. & Sandoval, A. (Eds.), Manu: The Biodiversity of Southeastern Peru. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 327–357.

    Smith, F. (1855) Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part III. Mutillidae and Pompilidae. Trustees of the British Museum, London. [4] + 1–206. [plates A + plate 1–5.]

    Williams, K.A. (2012) Systematics of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) with special emphasis on Dasymutilla and their allies. All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1200, 327 pp. Available from: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1200/ (1 March 2016)

    Williams, K.A., Manley, D.G., Pilgrim, E.M., von Dohlen, C.D. & Pitts, J.P. (2010) Multifaceted assessment of species validity in the Dasymutilla bioculata species group (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Systematic Entomology, 36 (1), 180–191.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00555.x

    Williams, K.A., Manley, D.G., Deyrup, M., von Dohlen, C. & Pitts, J.P. (2012) Systematic review of the Dasymutilla monticola species-group (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae): using phylogenetics to address species-group placement and sex associations. Zootaxa, 3554, 1–29.

    Williams, K.A. & Pitts, J.P. (2013) Caribbean and Mexican additions to the Dasymutilla bioculata species-group (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 106 (4), 429–436.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/AN12123

    Wilson, J.S., Jahner, J.P., Forister, M.L., Sheehan, E.S., Williams, K.A. & Pitts, J.P. (2015) North American velvet ants form one of the world’s largest known Müllerian mimicry complexes. Current Biology, 25 (16), R704–R706.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.053

    Yanega, D. (1994) Arboreal, ant-mimicking mutillid wasps, Pappognatha; parasites of Neotropical Euglossa (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae and Apidae). Biotropica, 26 (4), 465–468.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2389242