Dasymutilla ocyrae (Cameron)

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 : 78

Dasymutilla ocyrae (Cameron)

Sphaerophthalma [ sic.] ocyrae Cameron, 1895 . Biol. Cent.-Amer., Hym. 2:361. Holotype female, Mexico, Rio Papagaio , Guerrero, 1200' (Smith) (No. 15.828) [BMNH] (examined).

Dasymutilla gaumeri Mickel, 1937 . Rev. Ent. Rio 7:192. Holotype female, Mexico, Temax, N. Yucatan (Gaumer) [BMNH] (examined). NEW SYNONYM.

Diagnosis of Female (Plate C7H). This species has the apices of the middle and hind femora squarely truncate, with the outer lobe being sulcate. It can be separated from all other species having this character by the following: the posterolateral angle of the head is carinate, although not strongly so; a scutellar scale is absent; the pygidium is granulate; the integument is dark, fuscous to black, while the body is clothed with silver and black patches of setae; and tergum II lacks maculae.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Mexico (Campeche, Yucatan); Guatemala.

Remarks. This species is known only from the female. The holotype specimens for both D. ocyrae and D. gaumeri are in The Natural History Museum (London). They have both been examined and are identical. This is a relatively uncommon species known from about a half dozen specimens. All known specimens have been examined.