Dasymutilla monticola (Cresson)

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 : 73

Dasymutilla monticola (Cresson)

Mutilla monticola Cresson, 1865c . Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 4:430. Holotype male, Colorado Territory [ANSP] (examined).

Mutilla eximia Blake, 1886 . Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 13:200. Holotype male, Arizona [ANSP] (examined).

Ephuta boulderensis Rohwer, 1909 . Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 35:133. Holotype male, Boulder , Colorado, August 4, 1908 (S. A. Rohwer) [USNM] (examined).

Diagnosis of Male (Plate C6N). This species can be distinguished by the following combination of characters. It has the tegula punctate throughout, and bent downward to form a posterior face. It has a median pit on sternum II that is densely filled with setae. The apical metasomal segments are clothed with inconspicuous grayish setae.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution .. USA (Minnesota south to Kansas and Texas, and west to Arizona and California); Canada (British Columbia); Mexico (Tamaulipas).

Remarks. This species is known only from the male; D. caneo might be the female of this species. Like D. caneo , it is a very common species and has a broad distribution. Several hundred specimens of this species have been examined.