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Afrotropical Smicromyrmini

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

Classification

 

Corytilla Arnold, 1956

Ctenoceraea Nonveiller, 1993

Dentilla Lelej in Lelej & Kabakov, 1980
 

Guineomutilla Suárez, 1977

Gynandrotilla Arnold, 1946

 

Paglianotilla Lelej in Lelej & van Harten, 2006

Peringeyotilla Nonveiller & Ćetković, 1997

Physetopoda Schuster, 1949

 

Promecilla André, 1902

 

Rasnitsynitilla Lelej in Lelej & van Harten, 2006

Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870

 

Sulcotilla Bischoff, 1920

Distribution

 

Biology

 

References

Bayliss, P.S. & Brothers, D.J. 2001. Behaviour and Host Relationships of Dolichomutilla sycorax (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Sphecidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 10: 1-9.

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

Picker, M., Griffiths, C & Weaving, A. 2002. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.

Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the British Museum, London. 240 pp.

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

Photographs © Denis Brothers (University of Kwazulu-Natal) or © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths (University of Cape Town) (published in Struik's Field Guide to Insects of South Africa) or © Marcello Romano (Piazza A. Cataldo 10, 90040 Capaci (PA), Italy) or by Lloyd Huntly van Noort © Iziko Museums of South Africa.


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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