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Eotilla mickeli Schuster

 

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Thynnoidea; Family: Chyphotidae; Subfamily: Typhoctinae; Tribe: Eotillini; Genus: Eotilla)

Eotilla mickeli Schuster, 1949.

Classification

Photograph © Javier Torrens (CRILAR-CONICET).

Distribution

Argentina, Chile.

Biology

Possibly parasitoids of Sun spiders (Solifugae). A record of a single species of Bradynobaenidae as an ectoparasitoid of Solifugae (Arachnida) that pupated within the host’s burrow (Brothers & Finnamore, 1993) is all that is currently known.

References

Aguiar AP, Deans AR, Engel MS, Forshage M, Huber JT, Jennings JT, Johnson NF, Lelej AS, Longino JT, Lohrmann V, Miko I. 2013. Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703: 51-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12

Andrè E. 1903. Hymenoptera. Fam. Mutillidae. Genera Insectorum, 77pp.
Ashmead W. H. 1899. Super families in the Hymenopteraand Generic Synopses of the families Thynnidae, Myrmosidae and Mutillidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 7: 45-60.
Brothers D. J. 1970. Discovery of the Mutillid subfamily Typhoctinae in South America, with de- scription of a new species (Hymenoptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 43: 302-308.
Brothers D. J. 1974. The new genus Typhoctoides and a new species of Eotilla (Hymenoptera: Bradynobenidae (Typhoctinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 47: 359-363. 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.

Cresson E. T. 1875. Report upon the Collections of Hymenoptera made in portions of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona during the years 1872, 1873 and 1874. Rep. Geogr. Geol. Explor. Surv. W. 100th meridian, 5: 709-711.

Krombein K. V., Schuster R. M. 1957. A review of the Typhoctinae (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Proeedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 209-232.
Pagliano, G. & Romano, M. 2017. World list of all known species of Bradynobaenidae (Hymenoptera). Il Naturalista Valtellinese 28: 15–46.

Quintero D. A., Rodriguez R. R. 1990. New species of Typhoctes from Panama (Hymenoptera: Typhoctidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 83: 30-35.
Schuster R. M. 1949. Contributions toward a monograph of the Mutillidae of the Neotropical Region. III. A key to the subfamilies represented and descriptions of several new genera (Hymenoptera). Entomologia Americana (n. s.), 29: 59-140.
Torréns J. Fidalgo P., Roig-Alsina A., Brothers D. J. 2012. New species of Prototilla Schuster, 1949 from Argentina and diagnoses of the genus based on male and female (Hymenoptera: Brady- nobaenidae: Typhoctinae: Eotillini). Zootaxa 3427: 17-32.
Torréns J, Fidalgo P., Roig-Alsina A., Brothers D. J. 2014. Review of the genus Eotilla Schuster, 1949 (Hymenoptera). Bradynobaenidae: Typhoctinae: Eotillini) and description of new species from Argentina. Zootaxa 3878: 1-18.

Turner R. E, 1909. Remarks on some Genera of the Scoliidae, with descriptions of new species. Ann. mag. natur. hist. 8(3): 485-486.

Credits

Photographs © Javier Torrens (CRILAR-CONICET)


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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