Dasymutilla cotulla Mickel

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 : 46-47

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5086614
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scientific name	Dasymutilla cotulla Mickel
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Dasymutilla cotulla Mickel, 1928 . U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:75. Holotype male, Cotulla , Texas, November 26, 1905 (F. C. Pratt) (No. 40721) [USNM] (examined).

Diagnosis of Male ( Plate C3O View PLATE 3 ). This species is diagnosed by the last sternite being distinctly dentate, the concave sternum II which may have a tiny pit filled with setae, and by having the head and mesosoma clothed with black setae.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. USA (New Mexico, Texas); Mexico (Coahuila, Durango).

Remarks. This species is known only from the male. It is characterized by having the last sternite dentate, a character that it shares only with D. vestita . It is distinguished from the latter by the head and mesosoma being clothed with black setae.

This is a relatively common species. Approximately 40 to 50 specimens have been examined.