Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5665 No. 2: 22 Jul. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-07-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.2.8
Page range: 277-280
Abstract views: 94
PDF downloaded: 11

Re-evaluation of the grammatical genders of the names “Smicromyrme” and its derivatives, and “Ephutomma” (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

School of Life Sciences; University of KwaZulu-Natal; Private Bag X01; Scottsville (Pietermaritzburg); 3209 South Africa
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok; Russia
Entomology Research Museum; Department of Entomology; University of California Riverside; Riverside; CA; USA
Hymenoptera nomenclature Erimyrme Nanomyrme Paramyrme Taiwanomyrme

Abstract

Contrary to earlier conclusions by two of the authors on the genders of some genus-group names in Mutillidae, it is determined that Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870, Erimyrme Lelej, 1985, Nanomyrme Lelej, 1977b, Paramyrme Lelej, 1977a, and Taiwanomyrme Tsuneki, 1993 are feminine, and Ephutomma Ashmead, 1899 is neuter.

 

References

  1. 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.
  2. Bischoff, H. (1920–1921) Monographie der Mutilliden Afrikas. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 86A (1–3 & 4–5), 1–480 (1920) & 481–830 (1921).
  3. Dalla Torre, C.G. de (1897) Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonimicus. Vol. VIII. Fossores (Sphegidae). Guilelmi Engelmann, Lipsiae [Leipzig], [4] + viii + 750 pp.
  4. ICZN (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature). (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. ITZN, London, xxx + 306.
  5. Lelej, A.S. (1977a) New data on the velvet ant fauna of Mongolia (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Insects of Mongolia, 5, 526–536. [in Russian]
  6. Lelej, A.S. (1977b) A new genus and species of the mutillid wasps (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) from Turkmenia. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 56 (1), 195–197. [in Russian]
  7. Lelej, A.S. (1983) On the velvet ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of Australia. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 62 (3), 612–619. [in Russian]
  8. Lelej, A.S. (1984) New Palaearctic genera and species of velvet ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 63 (4), 826–829. [in Russian]
  9. Lelej, A.S. (1985) Osy-nemki (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) Fauny SSSR i Sopredelnykh Stran [The Velvet Ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of the USSR and Neighbouring Countries]. Nauka, Leningrad, 268 pp. [in Russian]
  10. Lelej, A.S. (1995a) A review of Palaearctic and Oriental species of genus Nemka Lelej with description of Oriental genus Mickelomyrme gen. n. (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Far Eastern Entomologist, 6, 1–20.
  11. Lelej, A.S. (1995b) To the knowledge of East Asian species of the tribe Smicromyrmini Bischoff, 1920 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) with description of four new genera and eight new species. Far Eastern Entomologist, 13, 1–28.
  12. Lelej, A.S. (2005) Catalogue of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of the Oriental Region. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 252 pp.
  13. Lelej, A.S. & Brothers, D.J. (2008) The genus-group names of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) and their type species, with a new genus, new name, new synonymies, new combinations and lectotypifications. Zootaxa, 1889 (1), 1–79. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1889.1.1
  14. Lelej, A.S. & Kabakov, O.N. (1980) On Bradynobaenidae and Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Afghanistan. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 59 (1), 181–196. [in Russian]
  15. Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima Reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm], [4] + 823 + [5] pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.542
  16. Pagliano, G., Brothers, D.J., Cambra, R., Lelej, A.S., Lo Cascio, P., Matteini Palmerini, M., Scaramozzino, P.L., Williams, K.A. & Romano, M. (2020) Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, 36 (1–2), 5–427.
  17. Radoszkowski, O. (1877) Chrysidiformes, Mutillidae et Sphegidae. Puteshestvie v Turkestan A.P. Fedtshenko [Voyage au Turkestan d’Alexis Fedtschenko], Sankt-Petersburg, Series 14, 2 (5), 1–87, 3 pls. [in Russian]
  18. Say, T. (1836) Descriptions of new species of North American Hymenoptera, and observation on some already described. Boston Journal of Natural History, 1 (3), 209–305.
  19. Schwartz, F. (1984) Description d’un genre nouveau, disjoint de Smicromyrme, et d’une espèce nouvelle du sud de la France (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). L’Entomologiste, 40, 21–25.
  20. Spinola, M. (1841) Hyménoptères recueillis à Cayenne en 1839 par M. Leprieur, pharmacien de la Marine Royale. Seconde partie. Porte-aiguillons. Annales de la Société entomologique de France, 10 (2), 86–149.
  21. Suárez, F.J. (1979) Una nueva especie del Afganistán y propuesta de un género nuevo para la misma (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Nouvelle Revue d’Entomologie, 9 (1), 71–77.
  22. Thomson, C.G. (1870) Öfversigt af Sveriges rofsteklar. Opuscula Entomologica, 1 (2), 202–251.
  23. Tsuneki, K. (1993) On some Taiwanese Mutillidae, collected in 1976 by Mr. T. Murota, with descriptions of new taxa (Hymenoptera). Special Publications of the Japan Hymenopterists Association, 41, 39–50.

How to Cite

Brothers, D.J., Lelej, A.S. & Yanega, D. (2025) Re-evaluation of the grammatical genders of the names “Smicromyrme” and its derivatives, and “Ephutomma” (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Zootaxa, 5665 (2), 277–280. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5665.2.8