Dasymutilla bonita Mickel, 1928

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

Dasymutilla bonita Mickel

Dasymutilla bonita Mickel, 1928 . U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:208. Holotype female, Bonita , Graham County, Arizona, July 12, 1917 (J. Bequaert) [UMSP] (examined).

Dasymutilla poliothrix Mickel, 1928 . U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:285. Holotype male, Nogales , Arizona, July 24, 1903 (Oslar) [CUIC] (examined).

Diagnosis of Female ( Plate C2H ). A distinguishing character for this species is that flagellomere I is long, about 2X as long as wide, and about as long as II and III united. Also, neither the antennal scrobe nor gena are carinate, the pronotum is clothed with black setae, the mesosoma is longer than broad, and possesses a scutellar scale.

Diagnosis of Male ( Plate C2I ). The male is notable in having a median pit on sternum II, but lacks an apical fringe of setae on the pygidium. Also, the tegula of this species is impunctate, the metasoma has predominantly dense orange setae, and the apical metasomal terga are clothed with inconspicuous silver or grayish setae.

Distribution. USA (Arizona); Mexico (Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora).

Remarks. This is not a particularly common species. Approximately two dozen specimens of each sex have been examined.

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PLATE 2. Male genitalia of Dasymutilla. A. D. impressa. B. D. ionothorax. C. D. loreto. D. D. mazatlanorum. E. D. mirabilis. F. D. mirapenis. G. D. modgudi. H. D. naranjo.