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Afrotropical Trogaspidiini

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

Classification

Acanthomutilla Nonveiller, 1995

 

Allotropidia Nonveiller, 1996

Amblotropidia Nonveiller, 1995

 

Aureotilla Bischoff, 1920

 

Carinotilla Nonveiller, 1973

 

Chrysotilla Bischoff, 1920

 

Curvitropidia Nonveiller, 1995

 

Dentotilla Nonveiller, 1977

Glossotilla Bischoff, 1920

 

Hildbrandetia Özdikmen, 2005

Lobotilla Bischoff, 1920

Lophotilla Bischoff, 1920

 

Pseudolophotilla Nonveiller & Ćetković, 1995

 

Seriatospidia Nonveiller & Ćetković, 1996

 

Spinulomutilla Nonveiller, 1994

Spinulotilla Bischoff, 1920

 

Sylvotilla Viette, 1978

Trispilotilla Bischoff, 1920

Trogaspidia Ashmead, 1899

 

Tuberocoxotilla Nonveiller, 1980

Vanhartenidia Lelej in Lelej & van Harten, 2006

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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