Dasymutilla bouvieri (André)

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 : 33-34

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scientific name

Dasymutilla bouvieri (André)
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Dasymutilla bouvieri (André)

Mutilla (Ephuta) Bouvieri André, 1898 . Ent. Soc. Fr., Ann. 67:51. Lectotype female, Haiti [MNHN] (examined).

Diagnosis of Female ( Plate C2J View PLATE 2 ). The coloration of this species, coupled with its restricted range, make recognition straightforward. This species has the integument of the head black, the mesosoma reddish, and first two metasomal segments reddish, and the remainder of the metasoma castaneous to black. The dorsum of the body is clothed with contrasting yellow/white and black setae. The apical fringes of terga I and II, and tergum III entirely, are black. Also of importance is that the entire body is coarsely reticulately sculptured, the antennal scrobe is very weakly carinate dorsally, with the carina extending laterally little beyond the base of the antennal tubercle, the gena is not carinate, the posterolateral angle of the head lacks tubercles, flagellomere I is short, less than 2X its width at the apex, and shorter than II and III combined, the mesosoma is longer than broad, and possesses a scutellar scale.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Hispaniola ( Dominican Republic, Haiti).

Remarks. This species is known only from the female and does not key particularly well. However, it should be reasonably easy to identify solely on the basis of distribution. If an error were made at couplet #30, this species would key to D. altamira . Dasymutilla bouvieri is easily distinguished from D. altamira by its large size, coarse sculpture, and distribution.

André (1898) described the species on the basis of two female specimens. He mentioned that he had seen an equal number of specimens from the same locality in the de Saussure collection. We have examined three specimens, including the type specimens .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mutillidae

Genus

Dasymutilla

Loc

Dasymutilla bouvieri (André)

MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P. 2007
2007
Loc

Mutilla (Ephuta) Bouvieri André, 1898

Bouvieri Andre 1898
1898
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