Tropical and subtropical velvet ants of the genus Dasymutilla ashmead (hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with descriptions of 45 new species

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1487, 2007, Pages 1-128

  Manley, Donald G ^a   Pitts, James P ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Key to species; Mutillidae; Neotropical; New species; Velvet ant

Indexed keywords

DASYMUTILLA; DASYMUTILLA VESTA; HYMENOPTERA; MIRABILIS; MUTILLIDAE; PROCLEA; SAPPHO; TOLUCA;

EID: 34347333449     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1     Document Type: Article

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