Andreimyrme neaera ( Mickel, 1935 )

Okayasu, Juriya, Williams, Kevin A., Lelej, Arkady S. & Pham, Thai Hong, 2021, Review of female Andreimyrme Lelej (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae: Smicromyrmini), Zootaxa 5061 (1), pp. 1-38 : 16-17

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Andreimyrme neaera ( Mickel, 1935 )
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Andreimyrme neaera ( Mickel, 1935)

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Smicromyrme neaera Mickel, 1935: 278 , ♀, holotype ♀ ( Sandakan , [Sabah], Borneo, [ Malaysia]) [USNM].

Andreimyrme neaera: Lelej 1996a: 100 , ♀; Lelej 2005: 38; Lo Cascio 2015: 544; Okayasu et al. 2018: 303, ♀; Williams et al. 2019b: 16, ♀; Okayasu 2020: 61, ♀, examined; Pagliano et al. 2020: 169.

Diagnosis. FEMALE. Head black; frons, vertex, and gena punctures large confluent; vertex without medial longitudinal carina; clypeus medially elevated but lacking tubercle. Mandible wide tridentate, oblique to apex, dorsal subapical tooth distinct but smaller than middle subapical tooth, middle subapical tooth subequal to apical tooth. F1 dark brown. Mesosoma entirely red; dorsal thoracic length 0.98× mesosomal width; humeral carina lamellately projecting; posterior propodeal face with medial longitudinal carina. Legs yellowish red with meso- and metafemoral apices, tibiae, and tarsi black. Metasoma with bluish metallic luster; T2 length 0.93× width; T2 disc flattened medially, with anteromedial elongate spot of pale golden setae; T2 punctures small confluent; T2 posterior band wide, pale golden, complete; T3 with black setae; S1 reddish; S2 punctures large sparse; surface of pygidial plate smooth; lateral margins of pygidial plate slightly convergent anteriorly, carinate on posterior half. MALE. Unknown.

Material examined. 1♀. Malaysia: SABAH: Kalabakan , 3–11.IV.1973, K.M. Guichard leg., B. Petersen det. [1♀ ZMUC] .

Distribution. Malaysia: Sabah.

Remarks. Andreimyrme neaera , A. paniya , and A. sarawakensis are recognized within Andreimyrme by lacking a pale setal band on T3 and having the pygidial plate smooth, but this species differs from the latter two by having the head black (ventrally reddish in A. paniya ), the frons, vertex, and gena with large confluent punctures (with small sparse punctures in A. sarawakensis ), the mesosoma entirely red (posterior propodeal face with black spot in A. paniya ), the metasoma metallic blue (dark red in A. paniya ), the T2 spot present (absent in A. paniya and A. sarawakensis ), and the T2 posterior band wide and complete (narrow and interrupted in A. paniya ). The specimen examined herein has the antennal rim, mandible, and scape dark brown (ferruginous in holotype) and thoracic dorsum with black setae (ferruginous in holotype).

Lelej, A. S. (1996 a) Mutillid wasps collected in Malaysia and Indonesia by Dr. Sk. Yamane (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Tropics, 6 (1 - 2), 91 - 104. https: // doi. org / 10.3759 / tropics. 6.91

Lelej, A. S. (2005) Catalogue of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of the Oriental Region. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 252 pp.

Lo Cascio, P. (2015) Worldwide checklist of the island mutillid wasps (Hymenoptera Mutillidae). Biodiversity Journal, 6 (2), 529 - 592.

Mickel, C. E. (1935) The mutillid wasps of the islands of the Pacific Ocean (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 83 (2), 177 - 312. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1935. tb 01207. x

Okayasu, J., Williams, K. A. & Lelej, A. S. (2018) A remarkable new species of the genus Sinotilla Lelej (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae: Smicromyrmini) from Taiwan and an overview of color diversity in East Asian mutillid females. Zootaxa, 4446 (3), 301 - 324. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4446.3.1

Okayasu, J. (2020) Velvet ants of the tribe Smicromyrmini Bischoff (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) of Japan. Zootaxa, 4723 (1), 1 - 110. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4723.1.1

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 - 425.

Williams, K. A., Lelej, A. S., Okayasu, J., Borkent, C. J., Malee, R., Thoawan, K. & Thaochan, N. (2019 b) The female velvet ants (aka modkhong) of southern Thailand (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with a key to the genera of southeast Asia. Zootaxa, 4602 (1), 1 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4602.1.1

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FIGURES 1–10. Andreimyrme spp., ♀, dorsal habitus. 1. A. auricoma sp. nov., holotype; 2. A. borkenti (Williams), holotype; 3. A. laminatihumeralis sp. nov., holotype; 4. A. matsumotoi sp. nov., holotype; 5. A. naturalis sp. nov., holotype; 6. A. neaera (Mickel); 7. A. rong sp. nov., holotype; 8. A. rong sp. nov., paratype; 9. A. sarawakensis Lelej; 10. A. silvorientalis sp. nov., holotype.

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FIGURES 19–27. Andreimyrme spp., ♀, lateral habitus. 19. A. auricoma sp. nov., holotype; 20. A. borkenti (Williams), holotype; 21. A. laminatihumeralis sp. nov., holotype; 22. A. matsumotoi sp. nov., holotype; 23. A. naturalis sp. nov., holotype; 24. A. neaera (Mickel); 25. A. rong sp. nov., holotype; 26. A. sarawakensis Lelej; 27. A. silvorientalis sp. nov., holotype.

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FIGURES 36–41. Andreimyrme spp., ♀, face. 36. A. auricoma sp. nov., holotype; 37. A. borkenti (Williams), Vietnam; 38. A. laminatihumeralis sp. nov., holotype; 39. A. matsumotoi sp. nov., holotype; 40. A. naturalis sp. nov., holotype; 41. A. neaera (Mickel).

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FIGURES 50–55. Andreimyrme spp., ♀, mesosoma. 50. A. auricoma sp. nov., holotype; 51. A. borkenti (Williams), holotype; 52. A. laminatihumeralis sp. nov., holotype; 53. A. matsumotoi sp. nov., holotype; 54. A. naturalis sp. nov., holotype; 55. A. neaera (Mickel).

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FIGURES 63–70. Andreimyrme spp., ♀, metasoma. 63. A. auricoma sp. nov., holotype; 64. A. borkenti (Williams), holotype; 65. A. laminatihumeralis sp. nov., holotype; 66. A. matsumotoi sp. nov., holotype; 67. A. naturalis sp. nov., holotype; 68. A. neaera (Mickel); 69. A. rong sp. nov., holotype; 70. A. sarawakensis Lelej.

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FIGURES 77–84. Andreimyrme spp., ♀, pygidial plate. 77. A. auricoma sp. nov., holotype; 78. A. borkenti (Williams), holotype; 79. A. laminatihumeralis sp. nov., holotype; 80. A. matsumotoi sp. nov., holotype; 81. A. naturalis sp. nov., holotype; 82. A. neaera (Mickel); 83. A. rong sp. nov., holotype; 84. A. sarawakensis Lelej.

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FIGURES 90–91. Distributional maps of Andreimyrme spp. based on the material examined and the literature (Lelej 1995b, 1996a; Mickel 1935).

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mutillidae

Genus

Andreimyrme