Mutillidae

Dasymutilla vestita

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pompiloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Pompiloidea

Familia: Mutillidae
Subfamilia (7): Dasylabrinae – Mutillinae – Myrmillinae – Pseudophotopsidinae – Rhopalomutillinae – Sphaeropthalminae – Ticoplinae

Genera: Aglaotilla – Allotropidia – Ancistrotilla – Bidecoloratilla – Bimaculatilla – Bischoffiella – Bischoffitilla – Chilemutilla – Darditilla – Dasymutilla – Ephucilla – Ephuta – Ephutomorpha – Frigitilla – Gogoltilla – Indratilla – Invreiella – Krombeinidia – Lynchiatilla – Macromyrme – Mickelomyrme – Mutilla – Nordeniella – Nuristanilla – Odontomutilla – Odontophotopsis – Orientidia – Petersenidia – Pherotilla – Promecidia – Pseudomethoca – Rasnitsynitilla – Rimulotilla – Sinotilla – Smicromyrme – Sphaeropthalma – Spinulomutilla – Timulla – Tobantilla – Tricholabiodes – Trogaspidia – Viereckia – Xystromutilla – Zavatilla – Zeugomutilla

Name

Mutillidae Latreille, 1802

References

• Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, pp. i-xii + 13–467 [+ 1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page. 
• Barthélémy, C., Lelej, A.S. & Loktionov, V.M. 2018. A contribution to the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Hong Kong. Zootaxa 4514(2): 230–242. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.6 Reference page. 
• Bartholomay, P.R., Waldren, G.C. & de Oliveira, M.L. 2017. Observation of a mixed-sex, mixed-species aggregation of velvet ants, genus Timulla Ashmead, 1899 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in the Brazilian Amazon, Roraima, with a new synonymy. Zootaxa 4362(1): 135–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.8 Reference page. 
• Bartholomay, P.R., Williams, K.A., Luz, D.R. & Morato, E.F. 2015: Frigitilla gen. nov., a new genus of Amazonian Mutillidae (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa 3957(1): 49–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Brothers, D.J. 2015. Revision of the Rhopalomutillinae (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae): 1, generic review with descriptions of three new genera. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 46: 1–24. DOI: 10.3897/JHR.46.5733. Reference page. 
• Brothers, D.J. 2018. Aglaotilla, a new genus of Australian Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) with metallic coloration. Zootaxa 4415(2): 357–368. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.2.6 Reference page. 
• Brothers, D.J. & Lelej, A.S. 2017. Phylogeny and higher classification of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) based on morphological reanalyses. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 60: 1–97. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.60.20091 Reference page. 
• Cambra, R.A., Brothers, D.J. & Quintero, D. 2016. Review of Frigitilla Williams in Bartholomay et al., 2015, with description of a new species from Panama (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Zootaxa 4189(2): 395–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.13. Reference page. 
• Cambra, R.A., Buschini, M.L.T., Arias, D.Q., Brozoski, F. & Lustosa, P.R. 2017. Ephuta icema Casal, 1969 and its host Auplopus subaurarius Dreisbach, 1963 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Pompilidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4272(2): 285–290. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.2.9. Reference page. 
• Cambra, R.A., Queiros, C.N., De Deus, J.P.A., Wiliams, K.A., Bartholomay, P.R., Iantas, J., Nether, M.C., Nishida, K., Añino, Y.J., Saavedra, D. & Buschini, M.L.T. 2021. Description of the male of Xystromutilla bucki Suárez, 1960 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae), including new information on the biology of the genus. ZooKeys, 1011: 73–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1011.60944 Reference page. 
• Das, D., Kumar, G.P. & Bhadra, K. 2017. Description of a new species of the genus Odontomutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from India. Zootaxa 4290(2): 373–376. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.2.7. Reference page. 
• Lelej, A.S. & Brothers, D.J. 2008. The genus-group names of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) and their type species, with a new genus, new name, new synonymies, new combinations and lectotypifications. Zootaxa 1889: 1–79. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1889.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Lelej, A.S., Williams, K.A., Loktionov, V.M., Pang, H. & Xu, Z-F. 2017. Review of the genus Zeugomutilla Chen, 1957 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae, Mutillini), with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4247(1): 1–15. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.1. Reference page. 
• Soliman, A.M. 2016. A new species of Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski, 1885 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Saudi Arabia. Zootaxa 4067(1): 95–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.1.8. Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K., Murphy, M.V., Hitchen, Y. & Brothers, D.J. 2019. Four new species of Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Aglaotilla) reared from bee and wasp nests, with a review of Australian mutillid host records. Zootaxa 4609(2): 201–224. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.1 Reference page. 
• Zhou, H-T., Lelej, A.S., Williams, K.A. & Liu, J-X. 2018. Revision of the Oriental genus Zavatilla Tsuneki (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae, Trogaspidiini), with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 4418(2): 101–120. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.2.1 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bartholomay, P.R., Williams, K.A., Cambra, R.A. & de Oliveira, M.L. 2019: Does the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead occur in South America? The new genus Quwitilla, new combinations, and new distribution records from Neotropical velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) Zootaxa 4623(2): 261–282. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.2.3. Reference page. 
• Boehme, N.F., Tanner, D.A., Williams, K.A. & Pitts, J.P. 2012. Faunal study of velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) and their activity patterns and habitat preference at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nye County, Nevada, USA. Zootaxa 3587: 1–45. Preview reference page 
• Brabant, C.M.; Williams, K.A.; Pitts, J.P. 2010: True females of the subgenus Photomorphina Schuster (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Zootaxa, 2559: 58–68. Preview
• Brothers, D.J., Lelej, A.S. & Williams, K.A. 2019. Genus-group names of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera): corrections and updates since 2008. Zootaxa 4651(3): 578–588. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4651.3.12 Reference page. 
• El-Torkey, A.M. et al. 2011: Review of the Palaearctic species of Macromyrme Lelej 1984 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with description of a new species from Egypt. Zootaxa, 2863: 63–68. Preview
• El-Torkey, A. & Soliman, A.M. 2015. Discovery of the genus Vanhartenidia Lelej, 2006 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in Egypt, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3999(2): 298–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.10. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Gadallah, N.S., Lelej, A.S. & Brothers, D.J. 2020. Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Mutillidae. Pp 141–152 In Gadallah, N.S., Brothers, D.J. & Williams, K.A., eds. Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula. Zootaxa 1-216. Reference page. . Zootaxa 4754(1): 141–152. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.15 Reference page. 
• Lelej, A.S. 1995: A review of Palaearctic and Oriental species of the genus Nemka Lelej with description of Oriental genus Mickelomyrme gen. n. (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Far Eastern entomologist, 6: 1–20. PDF
• Lelej, A.S. 1995: To the knowledge of East Asian species of the tribe Smicromyrmini Bischoff, 1920 (Hymenoptera, Mutilidae) with description of four new genera and eight new species. Far Eastern entomologist 13: 1–28. PDF
• Lelej, A.S. 1995: To the knowledge of the velvet ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of Rajasthan, Western India. Far Eastern entomologist, 20: 1–11. PDF
• Lelej, A.S. 1996: To the knowledge of the East Asian species of the tribe Trogaspidiini Bischoff, 1920 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) with description of eight new genera and two new species. Far Eastern entomologist, 30: 1–24. PDF
• Lelej, A.S. & K.V. Krombein, 1999: Two remarkable new genera of mutillid wasps (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Sphaeroptalminae, Pseudomethocini) from Thailand. Far Eastern entomologist, 79: 1–8. PDF
• Lelej, A.S. & P.G. Nemkow, 1997: Phylogeny, evolution and classification of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera). Far Eastern entomologist, 46: 1–24. PDF
• Lelej, A.S. & Harten, van A., 2014: A new species of the genus Physetopoda Schuster 1949 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) from the United Arab Emirates. Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 93 (1): 205-?
• Lelej, A.S.; Yildirim, E. 2009: A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Turkey. Zootaxa, 2160: 1–28. Abstract & excerpt
• Lelej, A.S., Zhou, H-T., Loktionov, V.M. & Xu, Z-F. 2016. Review of the genus Promecidia Lelej, 1996, with description of two new species from China (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae, Trogaspidiini). ZooKeys 641: 103–120. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.641.10765. Reference page. 
• Ljubomirov, T.; Ghahari, H. 2012: An annotated checklist of Mutillidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from Iran. Zootaxa 3449: 1–25. Preview Reference page. 
• Pitts, J.P.; Wilson, J.S.; Williams, K.A.; Boehme, N.F. 2009: Velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) of the Algodones sand dunes of California, USA. Zootaxa, 2131: 1–53. Abstract & excerpt
• Pitts, J.P.; Wilson, J.S.; Williams, K.A.; Boehme, N.F. 2010: 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, 2553: 1–34. Preview PDF
• Tu, B-B., Lelej, A.S. & Chen, X-X. 2015. Review of the genus Taiwanomyrme Tsuneki, 1993 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae, Mutillinae), with description of two new species from China. Zootaxa 4020(3): 588–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4020.3.10.Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Turrisi, G.F., Matteini Palmerini, M. & Brothers, D.J. 2015. Systematic revision and phylogeny of the genera Blakeius Ashmead, 1903 and Liomutilla André, 1907, with description of two new genera (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Myrmillinae). Zootaxa 4010(1): 1–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4010.1.1. Preview (PDF); ISBN 978-1-77557-781-2 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-782-9 (Online edition) Reference page. 
• Williams, K.A., Lelej, A.S., Okayasu, J., Borkent, C.J., Malee, R., Thoawan, K. & Thaochan, N. 2019. The female velvet ants (aka modkhong) of southern Thailand (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with a key to the genera of southeast Asia. Zootaxa 4602(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4602.1.1 Reference page. 
• Zhou, H-T., Lelej, A.S. & Xu, Z-F. 2017. Discovery of the subfamily Rhopalomutillinae (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in China and description of Pherotilla brothersi sp. nov. Zootaxa 4273(4): 597–594. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.4.8. Reference page. 

Links

• Mutillidae – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Ameisenwespen
English: Velvet ants
日本語: アリバチ
norsk: Maurvepser
Diné bizaad: Naʼazǫ́ǫzii
polski: Żronkowate
русский: Осы-немки
svenska: Spindelsteklar
Türkçe: Karınca arıları

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