Dasymutilla brazilia Manley & Pitts, 2007
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5790FDAC-C5EE-4ED3-AECE-33C0851E956E |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0382CB48-CB3D-C20F-CEF6-FD9CFA14C026 |
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Felipe |
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Dasymutilla brazilia Manley & Pitts |
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sp. nov. |
Dasymutilla brazilia Manley & Pitts , new species
Holotype male, Brazil, Pedra Azul , XI-71, Gerais , Seabra, and Oliveira [ EMUS].
Diagnosis of Male ( Plate C2K View PLATE 2 ). This species has an oval pit on sternum II that is distinctly posterior of center and is filled with setae, while the pygidium is glabrous and shining and has a thin apical fringe of dark setae. Also, the cuspis of the genitalia is thin and almost as long as the parameres ( Plate 1E View PLATE 1 ). This species has the integument of the head, mesosoma, and first and apical segments of the metasoma black, with the remaining segments of the metasoma ferruginous.
Description. Male: Length, 8–11 mm. Head. Black; mandible tridentate; clypeus flat, broadly triangular, coarsely sculptured, with the anterior edge jagged; scape bicarinate, clothed with silver setae; flagellomere I slightly shorter than remaining segments; antennal scrobe carinate; occipital region compressed laterally; clothed entirely with conspicuous silver setae.
Mesosoma. Black, anterior margin emarginate medially, the anterior face of emargination glabrous; dorsum with coarse contiguous punctures; lateral processes of scutellum long, punctate; tegula black, glabrous, with black setae; pronotum with dense appressed silver setae; mesonotum with dense, appressed black setae.
Legs black, with silver setae.
Wings dusky.
Metasoma. With first and apical segment(s) black, remaining segments ferruginous; anterior face of tergum I glabrous, shining; pygidium glabrous, shining, with thin apical fringe of dark setae; sternum I with a longitudinal carina, produced on both ends into blunt tooth; sternum II with oval pit densely filled with pale setae, the pit distinctly posterior of center; tergum I with dense apical fringe of silver setae; tergum II with sparse black setae, except anterior third pale; terga III to V with sparse, predominantly silver setae, and a few sparse black setae; remaining segments with completely black setae.
Genitalia ( Plate 1E View PLATE 1 ). Paramere with apex dorsally curved, ventral margin not densely pubescent basally, small patch of setae (length about 0.1X free length of paramere) present just anterior to middle, remainder with short sparse setae; cuspis cylindrical, thin, apex with thick long setae, extremely long, length about 0.9X free length of paramere, basal lobe absent; digitus linear, tapering towards apex, slightly knob-like apically, length about 0.3X free length of paramere; penial valve bidentate, teeth separate and roughly equal in size.
Female. Unknown.
Paratypes. 4♂, BRAZIL, Nova Conquista, Bahia, XII-69, F. M. Oliveira (1♂, DGMC); Pedra Azul, XI- 72, Alvarenga and Seabra (1♂, DGMC); Sao Paulo, Teodoro Sampaio, XI-85, Oliveira (1♂, DGMC); Para Belem, XI-22-55, C. D. Michener (1♂, DGMC) .
Distribution. Brazil.
Etymology. In reference to the type locality within Brazil; the specific-epithet is a noun in apposition.
Remarks. This species, known only from the male, keys very easily. Key characters are the pit on sternum II distinctly posterior of center, and presence of an apical fringe of setae on the pygidium. The integument of the metasoma is predominantly ferruginous in all but one specimen in which it is entirely ferruginous.
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