Dasymutilla saetigera Mickel, 1928

MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, Zootaxa 1487 (1), pp. 1-128 : 86

Dasymutilla saetigera Mickel

Dasymutilla saetigera Mickel, 1928 . U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:211. Holotype female, Baboquivari Mountains , Arizona (F. H. Snow) [SEMC] (examined).

Diagnosis of Female. This species can be recognized by its coloration and several structural characteristics. The antennal scrobe is strongly carinate dorsally. The gena is not carinate, although at certain angles the coarse punctation can cause the gena to appear carinate. Flagellomere I is long, about 2X as long as wide at the apex, and about as long as II and III united. The posterolateral angle of the head is not tuberculate. The mesosoma is longer than broad, and possesses a scutellar scale. The entire body is coarsely punctate. Setae on the dorsum of the body are not concolorous. The integument of the head is dark, but not black, whereas that of the mesosoma is ferruginous.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. USA (Arizona); Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora).

Remarks. This species is known only from the female and is very restricted in its distribution. Due to the coarse punctation, it may appear at certain angles that the gena is carinate, even though it is not. If an error were made at couplet #43, this species would key out to D. cirrhomeris . It can easily be distinguished from D. cirrhomeris solely on the basis of the long flagellomere I and the coarse punctation. Due to its restricted distribution, this species is uncommon in collections. Approximately two dozen specimens have been examined.