Dasymutilla chiron ursula (Cresson)

MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, Zootaxa 1487 (1), pp. 1-128 : 42

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
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scientific name	Dasymutilla chiron ursula (Cresson)
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Mutilla Ursula Cresson, 1875 . Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 5:120. Holotype male, Texas (No. 1875) [ANSP] (examined). Female description: Mickel (1928:143).

Diagnosis of Female. This subspecies has the antennal scrobe of the female weakly carinate. It is otherwise like the female of D. chiron .

Diagnosis of Male. The male of this subspecies is identical to D. chiron , except that the head and mesosoma both are clothed with orange setae.

Distribution. USA ( Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington); Canada ( British Columbia); Mexico ( Chihuahua, Durango).

Remarks. This subspecies, like the nominate species, is extremely common, and exhibits some variation in key characters that cause some problems in identification. As in the male of D. chiron , the pit on sternum II may or not be present in D. chiron ursula . Hundreds of specimens of both females and males have been examined.

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