Distribution
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Afrotropical, Oriental and Palearctic regions. |
Diversity
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Globally 100
species in 3 genera (Brothers & Finnamore, 1993). |
Biology |
Ectoparasitoids of larvae or pupa of other insects. Sexual
dimorphism ranges from extreme to slight (Brothers & Finnamore, 1993). |
References |
Brothers, D.J. &
Finnamore A.T. 1993. Superfamily Vespoidea pp. 161-278..
In
GOULET, H. & HUBER,
J. eds.. Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families.
Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.
Brothers DJ, Lelej AS 2017.
Phylogeny and higher classification of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) based on
morphological reanalyses. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 60:
1-97.
https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.60.20091
Mitchell, A. & Brothers, D.J. 1998. Revision and
cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical genus Areotilla Bischoff
(Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Ticoplinae). African Entomology 6: 193–214.
Mitchell, A. & Brothers, D.J. 2002. Phylogeny of the
genera of Ticoplinae (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymenoptera
Research 11: 312–325.
Nonveiller, G. 1973. Recherches sur les Mutillides de l’Afrique (Mutillidae,
Hymenoptera). III. Remarques concernant le genre Nanomutilla André, 1899.
Annales de la Faculté des Sciences au Cameroun 15-16: 63-73.
Waldren, G.C., Sadler, E.A., Murray, E.A., Bossert, S., Danforth, B.N. &
Pitts, J.P. 2023.
Phylogenomic inference of the higher classification of velvet ants (Hymenoptera:
Mutillidae). Systematic Entomology 1–25.
https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12588 |
Credits
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Photographs
© Denis Brothers (University
of Kwazulu-Natal).
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