Odontophotopsis piute Mickel

Boehme, Nicole F., Tanner, David A., Williams, Kevin A. & Pitts, James P., 2012, Faunal study of velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) and their activity patterns and habitat preference at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nye County, Nevada, USA, Zootaxa 3587, pp. 1-45 : 22

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3587.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5627530

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scientific name

Odontophotopsis piute Mickel
status

 

Odontophotopsis piute Mickel in Mickel & Clausen, 1983

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Odontophotopsis (Odontophotopsis) piute Mickel in Mickel & Clausen 1983: 550,

3. Holotype: California, Needles ( UMSP).

Diagnosis.MALE. This species can be recognized by the slender mandibles that are narrowed medially by a broad, shallow emargination, and lack a ventral tooth ( Fig. 15). Additionally, the tuberculate anterior margin of the clypeus, the presence of a pair of small, widely spaced tubercles on the mesosternum, and paucity of plumose hairs distinguish this species from other species. Genitalia are illustrated in Fig. 7 View FIGURES 2 – 11 . FEMALE. Unknown.

Material examined. Type material. Holotype of O. piute : California, Needles , 900 ft, 22 June 1931, H.A. Scullen ( UMSP) . Other material. Nevada, Nye Co., AMNWR: Non-dune site 1: 1 ♂, LT, 26–28.V.2009, NFB ; Non-dune site 3: 1 ♂, LT, 12–14.V.2009, NFB ; Non-dune site 4: 1 ♂, LT, 23–25.VI.2009, NFB ; Sand dune site 1: 1 ♂, LT, 26.VI.2008, NFB, DAT & JPP ; Sand dune site 4: 11 ♂, LT, 9.VI.2008, NFB & DAT, 12 ♂, LT, 1 ♂, MT, 12–15.V.2009, 8 ♂, LT, 26–28.V.2009, NFB, 2 ♂, LT, 8–15.VI.2009, NFB & DAT, 5 ♂, LT, 23–25.VI.2009, 2 ♂, LT, 6–8.VII.2009, 3 ♂, LT, 21–23.VII.2009, NFB ; Sand dune site 5: 1 ♂, LT, 24.VI.2008, NFB, DAT & JPP ; Nondune site 5: 1 ♂, LT, 26–28.V.2009, 2 ♂, LT, 6–8.VII.2009, NFB.

Distribution. USA (California and Nevada).

Activity. Males were active from mid-spring through mid-summer (May through July).

Remarks. Odontophotopsis piute were distributed uniformly over sand dune and non-dune habitats (U=18, p>0.2). Fifty-two O. piute males were collected from May through July at light traps. Four O. piute males were found at the NTS in June and July, but were not published in Ferguson (1967) or allred (1973), because it remained undescribed until Mickel & Clausen (1983).

UMSP

University of Minnesota Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mutillidae

Genus

Odontophotopsis

Loc

Odontophotopsis piute Mickel

Boehme, Nicole F., Tanner, David A., Williams, Kevin A. & Pitts, James P. 2012
2012
Loc

Odontophotopsis (Odontophotopsis) piute

Mickel 1983: 550
1983
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