Traumatomutilla (lat.) Is a genus of wasps German (velvet ants) from the subfamily Sphaeropthalminae (tribe Sphaeropthalmini ). More than 175 species. Endemic Neotropics [1] .
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Content
Spread
South America [1] .
Description
Small German wasps. The head of females is the same width or narrower than the mesosome; first metasomal nodular tergite. Parasites on stinging Hymenoptera, such as Crabronidae sand wasps and Apidae bees ( Tapinotaspidini ). Information on biology is fragmentary, for example, it is known that the wasp Stictia signata (Linnaeus) (Crabronidae: Bembicinae , Bembicini, Bembicina) is the host for the German wasp Traumatomutilla sphegea ( Fabricius ). Similar to the genus Dasymutilla [1] [2] [3] .
Systematics
More than 175 species are described, of which only two species are described for both sexes (females and males), and the rest are described either only by females (more than 100) or only by males (about 50) [2] .
- Traumatomutilla americana
- Traumatomutilla barra
- Traumatomutilla bispiculata
- Traumatomutilla centralis
- Traumatomutilla dubia
- Traumatomutilla fascinata
- Traumatomutilla inermis
- Traumatomutilla lasiogastra
- Traumatomutilla obsoleta
- Traumatomutilla peperina
- Traumatomutilla sphegea
- Other species
See also
- Gogoltilla chichikovi
- Rasnitsynitilla
- Nuristanilla kabakovi
Notes
- 2 1 2 3 4 Pedro R. BARTHOLOMAY, Kevin A. WILLIAMS, George C. WALDREN & Marcio L. DE OLIVEIRA. (2015). Corrections on the biology of Traumatomutilla AndrΓ©, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Zootaxa 3920 (19 Feb. 2015): 198-200 (Eng.) (Tested on February 19, 2015)
- β 1 2 Kevin A. Williams. 2012. Systematics of Multillidae (Hymenoptera) With Special Emphasis on Dasymutilla and Their Allies. - Dissertation of Philosophy in Biology. - Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2012. - 1-322pp.
- β da Cunha, R. (2004). Monoeca xanthopyga (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Tapinotaspidini), primero registro de hospedeiro para parasitoide do gΓͺnero Traumatomutilla (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) on Serra Geral do Rio Grande do Sul. Acta Scientae, 6 (2), 35-40.
Literature
- Leley A.S. Wasps-Germans (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of the fauna of the USSR and adjacent countries. - L .: Science, 1985. - 268 p.
- Lelei A.S. Catalog of the German-wasps (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of the Palaearctic region. - Vladivostok: Dal'nauka, 2002. - 171 p.
- Casal, OH 1969. Sobre Traumatomutilla AndrΓ© (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Physis. 28: 279β298
- Nonveiller, G. Catalog of the Mutillidae, Myrmosidae and Bradynobaenidae of the Neotropical Region including Mexico (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Hymenopterorum Catalogus (Nova Editio), 18. - Den Haag: SPB Academic Publishing, 1990. - 150 p.