Odontophotopsis setifera Schuster

Pitts, James P., 2007, Revision of Odontophotopsis Viereck (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), Part 1, with a description of a new Genus Laminatilla, Zootaxa 1619, pp. 1-43 : 19

Odontophotopsis setifera Schuster

( Fig. 29–31 )

Odontophotopsis (Odontophotopsis) setifera Schuster, 1952 . Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 47: 47–49, male. Holotype: California, Riverside Co., Palms to Pines Highway, 28.May.1940, R.M. Bohart (UMSP).

Odontophotopsis (Odontophotopsis) setifera Schuster, 1958 . Ent. Amer. (n. s.) 37: 56, male.

Diagnosis. This species is differentiated from O. biramosa by the mandible having four teeth, the clypeus having short, peg-like setae, but in lacking a horseshoe-shaped tubercle located posteromedially on the clypeus, by having two teeth on each side of the midline (the posterior tooth is approximately a third of the height of the anterior tooth; Fig. 29 ), and by having the cuspis being approximately equal to the free length of the paramere ( Figs. 30, 31 ).

Distribution. The western Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Baja California, Mexico.

Material examined. USA, Arizona: La Paz Co., Ehrenberg, 1 paratype male, 29.Apr.1939, F.H. Parker ( UMSP). California, Fresno Co., Jacalitos, 4 males, 31.Jul.1956, R.O. Schuster ( UCDC); Imperial Co., Dos Palmas Ranch , 2 males, 7.May.1983, B.K. Dozier ( FSCA); Inyo Co., Olancha , 4 mi E, 57 males, 19– 20.Jun.2006, K.A. Williams ( EMUS); Tinemaha Reservoir Sand Dunes, East Side, 2 males, 12.Aug.1975, Andrews and Hardy ( CDFA); Riverside Co., Corn Springs, 10 mi S Desert Center, 22 males, 17.Jul.2005, K.A. Williams ( EMUS); Deep Canyon, 1 male, 16.May.1963, E.I. Schlinger ( UCRC); Magnesia Canyon, 20.Jul.1952, McClay ( UCDC); Palm Springs, 1 male, 27.May–6.Jun.1932, T. Zschokke ( UMSP), 1 male, 6.Jun.1932, T. Zschokke ( UAIC), 1 male, 15.Sep–15.Oct.1932 ( UMSP); San Bernardino Co., 5mi. S. of Barstow on HW 247, 40 males, 16.Jul.2005, K.A Williams ( EMUS); Kelso Dunes, S. side, 1 male, 19.Jun.1999, G.R. Ballmer, Hawks, Powell and Yanega ( UCRC); 29 Palms, 10 mi. E, 8 males, 16.Jun.1966, ( CDFA). Nevada, Lincoln Co., Game Range Dunes, 1 male, 14.Aug.1975, Andrews and Hardy ( CDFA). MEXICO: Baja California, San Felipe, 5 mi N, 1 male, 3.Jun.1961, H.F. Howden ( CNCI).

Remarks. Schuster described this species as new twice, first in 1952 and again with the same name in 1958. The specimen listed as a paratype above was published as a paratype in Schuster (1952), but bears a label stating “c.w. type, 1959, R.M. Schuster” and apparently was the holotype specimen for the 1958 publication. This label should be disregarded and the specimen considered a paratype only.

Figures

FIGURES 23 – 31. Odontophotopsis quadridentata: Fig. 23. head, frontal view; Fig. 24. mesosternum, lateral view; Fig. 25. genitalia, dorsal view; Fig. 26. cuspis, lateral view, dorsum to the left. Odontophotopsis biramosa: Fig. 27. head, frontal view; Fig. 28. genitalia, dorsal view. Odontophotopsis setifera: Fig. 29. mesosternum, lateral view; Fig. 30. genitalia, dorsal view; Fig. 31. genitalia, lateral view.