Dasymutilla sophrona 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 : 91

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5086682
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scientific name	Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel
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Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel

Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel, 1928 . U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:271. Holotype male, Willcox , Arizona, July 31, 1909 (A. K. Fisher) (No. 40749) [USNM] (examined).

Diagnosis of Male (Plate C8I). This male has the apices of the middle and hind femora squarely truncate, with the surface of the outer lobe being sulcate. Also, the integument of the metasoma is ferruginous. The tibial spurs are white, and the head is clothed with pale setae, being silver to white. The setae of the metasoma are entirely ferruginous to orange.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. USA (Arizona, Texas); Mexico (Morelos, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora).

Remarks. This species is known only from the male. It is a relatively uncommon species, and only about a dozen specimens have been examined.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Mutillidae
Genus	Dasymutilla