Description of the male of Xystromutilla bucki Suárez, 1960 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae), including new information on the biology of the genus

By

Cambra-Torok, Roberto A
Nepomuceno Queiros, Caroline
Alves De Deus, Jean P.
Williams, Kevin A.
Bartholomay, Pedro
Iantas, Jucélia
Nether, Michele C.
Nishida, Kenji
Añino, Yostin J.
Saavedra, Daisy
Tunes Buschini, Maria L.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1011

Pages

73--84

Subjects

Auplopus , Diapause , Neotropical , Pepsinae , Pseudomethoca , Seasonal abundance , Sphaeropthalminae , Spider wasps , velvet ants

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1011.60944

 

Abstract

The male of Xystromutilla bucki Suárez, 1960 is described and associated with the female based on couples reared from trap-nests occupied by Auplopus subaurarius Dreisbach, 1963 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Information on the diapause of X. bucki and Pseudomethoca nr. chontalensis (Cameron, 1895) (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) is presented. Seasonal and annual variation in the abundance of X. turrialba Casal, 1969 are also given.