Dilophotopsis paron ( Cameron )

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 : 4-6

Dilophotopsis paron ( Cameron)

Sphaerophthalma (sic) paron Cameron, 1896 . Biol. Cent.-Amer. 37: 88. Male. Holotype data: Mexico, Northern Sonora , Morrison (BMNH).

Dilophotopsis concolor sonorensis Schuster, 1958 . Ent. Amer. 37: 88. Male. Holotype data: Arizona, Gila Bend, 24.Apr.1935, F.H. Parker (UMSP).

Diagnosis of male. The male of this species has greatly dilated mandibles that are deeply excised ventrally (e.g., Fig. 2 ), has mesosternal processes in the form of tubercles ( Fig. 51 ) that are relatively wide and shagreened on their apex, has a flattened hypopygidium that is carinate anterolaterally and has distinctive genitalia with the paramere, and cuspis dorsoventrally flattened and the cuspis elbowed ( Fig. 50 ).

Female. Unknown.

Materials examined. California, Riverside Co.: Deep Canyon, 3 males, 16.May.63.

Distribution. Restricted to the Mojave and western Sonoran Deserts of Arizona, California, and Nevada, and the deserts of Baja California, and Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Remarks. This genus was reviewed by Wilson and Pitts (2008).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 12. Head, anterior view. 1. Acanthophotopsis falciformis; 2. Acrophotopsis campylognatha; 3. Odontophotopsis acmaea; 4. O. armata; 5. O. aufidia; 6. O. bellona; 7. O. biramosa; 8. O. clypeata; 9. O. inconspicua; 10. O. mamata; 11. O. melicausa; and 12. O. quadrispinosa.

FIGURES 49 – 58. Acanthophotopsis falciformis: 49. Genitalia, lateral view (from Tanner & Pitts 2009). Dilophotopsis paron: 50. Genitalia, ventral, dorsal, inner lateral view, and lateral view of penis valve; and 51. Mesosoma, oblique ventral view (from Wilson & Pitts 2008). Sphaeropthalma amphion: 52. Genitalia, dorsal, inner lateral view, and lateral view of penis valve (from Pitts et al. 2004). Sphaeropthalma angulifera: 53. Genitalia, dorsal, inner lateral view, and lateral view of penis valve (from Wilson & Pitts 2009). Mandible, anterior view: 54. Sphaeropthalma angulifera; and 55. Sphaeropthalma mendica (from Wilson & Pitts 2009). Sphaeropthalma ferruginea: 56. Genitalia, ventral view left, dorsal view right. Sphaeropthalma ignacio: 57. Genitalia, ventral view left, dorsal view right. Sphaeropthalma macswaini: 56. Genitalia, inner lateral view left.