Chilemutilla aptera (lat.) Is a species of nocturnal female Germans of the genus Chilemutilla from the subfamily Sphaeropthalminae [2] . Endemic of Chile (sand dunes 30 km from the seashore, Bahia Ingles ( Spanish , Copiapo province, Atacama region). Body length 4 mm. Head and mesosome brownish-orange, metasomal segments reddish-black, legs brown. Body covered in whitish small ocelli, notauli absent, wingless males [1] , and these are the first similar female males from South America (previously this was the last continent from which such examples were not known) [3] [4] . The species was described in 2007 Panamanian entomologists Roberto Cambra ( Roberto Cambra ) and Diomedes Quintero ( Diomedes Quintero , Museo de Invertebrados GB Fairchild, Universidad de Panama, Panama ) The specific name is aptera , comes from the Latin aptera and means “wingless” [1] .
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See also
- Chilemutilla atacama
- Chilemutilla gauldi
- Indratilla ceylonica
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Cambra Roberto and and Diomedes Quintero. Chilemutilla, a new genus of Mutillidae from Chile, and the description of the first wingless mutillid male from South America // Transactions of the American Entomological Society. - 2007. - Vol. 133 , no. 1 . - P. 167-180 .
- ↑ Lelej AS and D. Brothers. The genus-group names of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) and their type species, with a new genus, new name, new synonymies, new combinations and lectotypifications (English) // Zootaxa . - 2008 .-- Vol. 1889 . - P. 1-79 .
- ↑ Pitts James P., Joseph S. Wilson, Carol D. von Dohlen. Evolution of the nocturnal Nearctic Sphaeropthalminae velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) driven by Neogene orogeny and Pleistocene glaciation (Eng.) // Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. - 2010 .-- Vol. 56 , no. 1 . - P. 134-145 .
- ↑ Pitts James P., Joseph S. Wilson, Kevin A. Williams & Nicole F. Boehme. Nocturnal velvet ant males (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) of Deep Canyon, California including four new species and a fifth new species from Owens Lake Valley, California // Zootaxa . - 2010 .-- Vol. 2553 . - P. 1-34 .
Literature
- Lelei A.S. German wasps (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of the fauna of the USSR and neighboring countries. - L .: Nauka, 1985 .-- 268 p.
- Lelej AS and PG Nemkov. Phylogeny, evolution and classification of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) (Eng.) // Far Eastern Entomology. - Vladivostok, 1997. - Vol. 46 , no. 1 . - P. 1-24 .