Journal
ZOOTAXA
Volume 4894, Issue 2, Pages 151-205Publisher
MAGNOLIA PRESS
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.2.1
Keywords
Aculeata; biogeography; Mexican transition zone; Mullerian mimicry; mutillid wasps; Nearctic; Neotropical; Pseudomethoca; Sphaeropthalminae
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- Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Utah State University
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The velvet ant genus Invreiella Suarez, 1966 is redescribed and revised. Females are grouped into five species-groups, with eleven new species described based on females: I. acuminata Waldren, sp. nov., I. australis Waldren, sp. nov., I. bimaculata Waldren, sp. nov., I. breviclypeata Waldren, sp. nov., I. chihuahuensis Waldren, sp. nov., I. cuernavaca Waldren, sp. nov., I. erythrocephala Waldren, sp. nov., I. manleyi Waldren, sp. nov., I. mesomexicana Waldren, sp. nov., I. suarezi Waldren, sp. nov., and I. tequila Waldren, sp. nov. One new combination is included, I. cephalargia (Mickel, 1924), comb. nov., formerly placed in Pseudomethoca Ashmead, 1896. Additionally, I. curoei Quintero & Cambra, 2011 is synonymized with I. cardinalis (Gerstaecker, 1874), syn. nov., and I. megacantha (Cockerell & Casad, 1894), stat. resurr., is treated as a nomen dubium. The lectotype of Mutilla satrapa Gerstaecker, 1874 originally designated by C. Mickel is here validated. An illustrated key to species is included.
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