Petersenidia leleji Williams, 2019

Okayasu, Juriya, Lelej, Arkady S., Williams, Kevin A., Brabant, Craig M., Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, Nguyen, Anh Duc, Pham, Thai Hong & Truong, Tuong Thi Cat, 2025, Current knowledge on the velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Myrmosidae) of Vietnam: faunal review and new distributional records, Zootaxa 5668 (1), pp. 1-104 : 66

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scientific name	Petersenidia leleji Williams, 2019
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Petersenidia leleji Williams in Williams et al., 2019b: 40, ♀, holotype ♀ (2.4 km S Ban Na, Farm, Phatthalung, Thailand) [CSCA]; Pagliano et al. 2020: 256; Boutin & Vilhelmsen 2024: supplementary table S2, S3, ♀.

Previous record. This species was described from Hoa Binh, Quang Ninh, and Vinh Phuc in Williams et al. (2019b).

Distribution. Thailand. Vietnam: Vinh Phuc, Quang Ninh, Hoa Binh.

Occurrence in Vietnam. March, April, October, November. South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests and Northern Indochina subtropical forests ecoregions. 1120 m alt. Forest.

Sex association. Male unknown.

Remarks. In Vietnam, this species might be locally abundant, because it is known from 21 females from five localities ( Williams et al. 2019b).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Mutillidae
Genus	Petersenidia