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Macromyrme Lelej

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

Macromyrme Lelej, 1984

Macromyrme bezdeki Lo Cascio, Romana & Grita, 2012 (Yemen - Socotra island)
 

Macromyrme chrysophthalma (Klug, 1829) (Yemen)

  Macromyrme rufoguttata (Magretti, 1892) (Ethiopia)
  9 more species to be added.

Distribution

Afrotropical, Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Lelej A.S. 1984. New Palaearctic genera and species of velvet ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae). Entomologischeskoe Obozrenie 63: 826–829 (in Russian).

Lo Cascio, P., Romano, M. & Grita, F. 2012. New species and new records of mutillid wasps from the Socotra Archipelago (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52: 525-544.

Credits

Photographs © Marcello Romano (Piazza A. Cataldo 10, 90040 Capaci (PA), Italy)


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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