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Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Pompiloidea: Family: Mutillidae; Subfamily: Dasylabrinae; Tribe: Dasylabrini)

Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski, 1885. Type species: Mutilla pedunculata Klug, 1829.

	Tricholabiodes aaegyptiacus (Radoszkowski, 1876) (Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen) Tricholabiodes arabicus Suárez, 1967 (Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen) Tricholabiodes aldryhimi Soliman, 2016 (Saudi Arabia) Tricholabiodes andrei Bischoff, 1920 (South Africa) Tricholabiodes brothersi Lelej, 2010 (United Arab Emirates)
	Tricholabiodes carinifer Bischoff, 1920 (Namibia, South Africa)
	Tricholabiodes chloroticus (Gribodo, 1884) (Saudi Arabia, Yemen) Tricholabiodes craspedopygius Suárez, 1967 (Eritrea, United Arab Emirates) Tricholabiodes denticrus Bischoff, 1920 (Djibouti) Tricholabiodes garamantis Suárez, 1967 (Algeria, Niger) Tricholabiodes imbellis (André, 1895) (Namibia, South Africa) Tricholabiodes lividus (André, 1909) (Namibia, South Africa) Tricholabiodes niloticus Suárez, 1967 (Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen) Tricholabiodes nodosus Bischoff 1920 (Namibia, South Africa) Tricholabiodes nonveilleri Suárez, 1977 (Cameroon, Senegal) Tricholabiodes pallidicornis Bischoff, 1920 (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, Togo, Tunisia) Tricholabiodes patrizii (Invrea, 1932) (Chad, Libya) Tricholabiodes pedunculatoides Bischoff, 1920 (Arabia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Yemen) Tricholabiodes pedunculatus Klug, 1829 (Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia) Tricholabiodes saharicus Suárez, 1967 (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia) Tricholabiodes scorteccii Invrea, 1965 (Saudi Arabia, Yemen) Tricholabiodes semistriataeformis Bischoff 1920 (South Africa) Tricholabiodes semistriataeformis pallidior Bischoff 1920 (Namibia, South Africa) Tricholabioies semistriatus Klug, 1829 (Cameroon, Djibouti, Egypt, Kuwait, Somalia) Tricholabiodes signatipennis André, 1901 (South Africa) Tricholabiodes somalicus Suárez, 1967 (Somalia) Tricholabiodes stenothorax Suárez, 1967 (Morocco, Western Sahara) Tricholabiodes stigmaticus Bischoff, 1920 (Namibia, South Africa) Tricholabiodes sudanensis Suárez, 1967 (Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Tricholabiodes tenuistriatus Suárez, 1967 (Cameroon)
	Tricholabiodes testaceus Bischoff, 1920
	Tricholabiodes thisbe (Peringuey, 1898) (Namibia, South Africa)

Distribution	Afrotropical, Palaearctic.
Biology	Nocturnal. For a detailed treatment see Bayliss & Brothers, 1996.
References	Bayliss P, Brothers DJ. 1996. Biology of Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski in Southern Africa, with a New Synonymy and Review of Recent Biological Literature (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymneoptera Research 5: 249-258. 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
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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