Odontophotopsis setifera Schuster

Pitts, James P., Wilson, Joseph S., Williams, Kevin A. & Boehme, Nicole F., 2010, Nocturnal velvet ant males (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) of Deep Canyon, California including four new species and a fifth new species from Owens Lake Valley, California, Zootaxa 2553, pp. 1-34 : 12

Odontophotopsis setifera Schuster

Odontophotopsis (Odontophotopsis) setifera Schuster, 1952 . Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 47: 47–49, male. Holotype data: 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 of male. This species can be recognized by its unique mandibular morphology ( Fig. 14 ). The mandible has the apex vertical and has four teeth with the dorsal tooth is separated from the remaining teeth by a deep sinus similar to the mandibles of O. biramosa (see Fig. 27 of Pitts 2007). Other potentially useful characters are listed in Pitts (2007) and Pitts et al. (2009).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. California, Riverside Co., Deep Canyon: 1 male, 16.May.1963.

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

Remarks. This species is found throughout the Mojave and western Sonoran Deserts. It was placed into the O. setifera species-group along with O. biramosa . See the remarks for O. biramosa for a discussion of the validity of the species-group.

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 24. Head, anterior view; except ventral view 17. 13. Odontophotopsis serca; 14. O. setifera; 15. Sphaeropthalma. amphion; 16. S. angulifera; 17. S. angulifera; 18. S. arota; 19. S. becki; 20. S. blakeii; 21. S. difficilis; 22. S. ferruginea; 23. S. ignacio; and 24. S. macswaini.

FIGURES 25 – 31. Head, anterior view. 25. Sphaeropthalma. megagnathos; 26. S. mendica; 27. S. pallida; 28. S. sublobata; 29. S. tetracuspis; 30. S. triangularis; and 31. S. yumaella.