Promecilla André, 1902

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Genus Promecilla André, 1902

Promecilla André, 1902: 14 , 40.

Type species: Mutilla regia Smith, 1855, ♀, by original designation.

SPECIES INCLUDED. The genus includes 28 species, 21 of them are known from Oriental Region, five from Afrotropical and two ( Promecilla primana

Skorikov , 1935, ♀ ♂ , Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and P. vinuta (Nagy, 1972), ♂ ,

Afghanistan) from Palaearctic Region (Pagliano et al., 2020). A new species P.

ovtchinnikovi sp. n. is described here.