Dasymutilla boharti Manley & Pitts, 2007

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 : 32-33

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5790FDAC-C5EE-4ED3-AECE-33C0851E956E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5086594
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0382CB48-CB03-C20D-CEF6-FB41FC9CC39E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Dasymutilla boharti Manley & Pitts
status	sp. nov.

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Dasymutilla boharti Manley & Pitts , new species

Holotype male, Mexico, Sonora, Alamos, IX-5-70, R. M. Bohart [ UCDC].

Diagnosis of Male ( Plate C2G View PLATE 2 ). This species is defined by the following unique combination of characters. The head and mesosoma are black; the metasoma is ferruginous, except the first segment, which is black. Sternum II has a small, round median pit filled with pale setae. The apical terga are clothed with inconspicuous grayish setae. The pygidium is glabrous and shining, and lacks an apical fringe of setae. This species is small in size.

Description. Male: Length, 6 mm. Head. Black; mandible worn in holotype, but appears to be tridentate; clypeus flat, coarsely sculptured, and weakly bidentate anteriorly; scape bicarinate, punctate, with sparse gray setae; flagellomere I distinctly shorter than remaining segments; head with shallow contiguous punctures, clothed with sparse gray setae; occipital region compressed laterally, convex medially.

Mesosoma. Black; anterior margin emarginate medially, the anterior face of emargination glabrous; lateral processes of scutellum short, coarsely punctate; tegula glabrous, shining, with sparse pale setae anteriorly; pronotum with moderately dense appressed gray setae; remainder of mesosoma with sparse erect gray setae.

Legs dark ferruginous, clothed with sparse pale setae.

Wings dusky.

Metasoma. Ferruginous, except first segment black; pygidium glabrous shining, without apical fringe of setae; sternum I with median longitudinal carina, produced anteriorly into blunt tooth; sternum II with small round median pit filled with pale setae; posterolateral angle of last sternite rounded, not dentate; last sternite with small separated punctures, except apical margin glabrous, produced into median tooth; clothed with inconspicuous gray setae throughout.

Genitalia ( Plate 1D View PLATE 1 ). Paramere with extreme apex dorsally curved, ventral margin of basal 0.3 densely pubescent, remainder with short sparse setae; cuspis cylindrical, enlarging towards middle from base and tapering towards apex, setose throughout, length about 0.8X free length of paramere, densely pubescent basal lobe present; digitus linear, tapering towards apex, slightly knob-like apically, length slightly less than 0.4X free length of paramere; penial valve bidentate, teeth separate, anterior tooth larger than posterior tooth.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Mexico (Sonora).

Etymology. Named in honor of Richard M. Bohart, in recognition of his contribution to hymenopteran taxonomy.

Remarks. This species is known only from the holotype. The apical segments of the metasoma of the holotype are broken off and glued to the locality label.