Dasymutilla monticola (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 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1
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scientific name	Dasymutilla monticola (Cresson)
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Treatment

Mutilla monticola Cresson, 1865c . Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 4:430. Holotype male, Colorado Territory [ANSP] (examined).

Mutilla eximia Blake, 1886 . Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 13:200. Holotype male, Arizona [ANSP] (examined).

Ephuta boulderensis Rohwer, 1909 . Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 35:133. Holotype male, Boulder , Colorado, August 4, 1908 ( S. A. Rohwer) [USNM] (examined).

Diagnosis of Male (Plate C6N). This species can be distinguished by the following combination of characters. It has the tegula punctate throughout, and bent downward to form a posterior face. It has a median pit on sternum II that is densely filled with setae. The apical metasomal segments are clothed with inconspicuous grayish setae.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.. USA ( Minnesota south to Kansas and Texas, and west to Arizona and California); Canada ( British Columbia); Mexico ( Tamaulipas).

Remarks. This species is known only from the male; D. caneo might be the female of this species. Like D. caneo , it is a very common species and has a broad distribution. Several hundred specimens of this species have been examined.

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