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Myrmosidae

Mymosid wasps of the world

 

Life: Kingdom: Metazoa animals.; Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Pompiloidea.

Classification

Kudakrumiinae
Myrmosinae

Distribution

Restricted to the Northern Hemisphere (Nearctic, Palaearctic and Oriental regions).

Diversity

50 species in 12 genera.

Biology

Ectoparasitoids (external kleptoparasitoids) of larvae or pupa of ground-nesting bees and wasps.

References

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André, E. 1896. Notes pour servir à la connaissance de mutilles paléarctiques et description de quelques espèces nouvelles. Deuxieme partie. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France, 9, 261–277.

Ashmead, W.H. 1900–1904. Classification of the fossorial, predaceous and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea. The Canadian Entomologist, (1900) 32, 145–155, 185–188, 295–296; (1902) 34, 79–88, 131–137, 163–166, 203–210, 219–231, 268–273, 287–291; (1903) 35, 3–8, 39–44, 95–107, 155–158, 199–205, 303–310, 323–332; (1904) 36, 5–9.

Bradley, J.C. & Bequaert, J.C. 1928. A Synopsis of the Mutillidae of the Belgian Congo. American Museum of Natural History, New York. 60pp.

Branstetter MG, Childers AK, Cox-Foster D, Hopper KR, Kapheim KM, Toth AL, Worley KC. 2018. Genomes of the Hymenoptera. Current Opinion in Insect Science 25: 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2017.11.008

Brothers, D.J. 1975. Phylogeny and classification of the aculeate Hymenoptera, with special reference to Mutillidae. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 50: 483-648, 101 figs.

Brothers, D.J. 1999. Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera,

Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea). Zoologica Scripta 28: 233-249.

Brothers, D.J., Carpenter, J.M. 1993. Phylogeny of Aculeata: Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2: 227-304.

Brothers, D.J. 1989. Alternative life-history styles of mutillid wasps Insecta: Hymenoptera. In: Bruton, M.N. Ed. Alternative life-history styles of animals. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 279–291.

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

Kumar GP, Lelej AS, DAS D, Raveendran HKP, Loktionov VM. 2019. Discovery of the genus Kudakrumia Krombein, 1979 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in India and description of a new species. Zootaxa 4612: 260-266. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4612.2.8

Lelej, A.S. 2002. Catalogue of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of the Palaearctic region. Dalnauka, Vladivostok. 171 pp.

Lelej, A.S. 2004. Catalogue of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of the Oriental region. Dalnauka, Vladivostok. 252 pp.

Lelej, A.S. 2007. Biogeography of mutillid wasps Hymenoptera, Mutillidae.. In: RasnitsynA.P. & Gokhman V.E. Eds.. Studies on Hymenopterous Insects. Collection of Scientific Papers. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd. P. 82–111. In Russian.

Lelej, A.S. & Brothers, D.J. 2008. The genus-group names of Mutillidae Hymenoptera. and their type species, with a new genus, new name, new synonymies, new combinations and lectotypifications. Zootaxa 1889: 1–79.

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

Williams KA, Lelej AS, Thaochan N. 2019. New species of Myrmosinae (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Southeastern Asia. Zootaxa 4656: 525-534. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4656.3.9

Williams KA, Lelej AS, Okayasu J, Borkent CJ, Malee R, Thoawan K, Thaochan N. 2019. The female velvet ants (aka modkhong) of southern Thailand (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with a key to the genera of southeast Asia. Zootaxa 4602: 1-69. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4602.1.1

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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