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Issue: Vol. 5633 No. 2: 12 May 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-05-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5633.2.4
Page range: 288-315
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Revision of the genus Dentilla Lelej in Lelej et Kabakov, 1980 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok- 22; 690022; Russia
Hymenoptera velvet ants Smicromyrmini Ephutomma Skorikovia new species new synonymy new combination new records Palaearctic Region

Abstract

Twenty species of the genus Dentilla Lelej in Lelej and Kabakov, 1980 are revised. Three species-groups are proposed. The new species D. dehghanii sp. nov. (Iran: Isfahan) and D. bischoffi sp. nov. (Algeria, Sudan) are described. New synonyms are proposed for D. erronea (André, 1900) (=Smicromyrme errana Nonveiller, 1958, syn. nov.; S. errana var. nigrescens Nonveiller, 1958, syn. nov.; S. errana cretica Nonveiller, 1972, syn. nov.; Dentilla curtiventris auct.); D. dichroa (Sichel et Radoszkowski, 1869) (=Ephutomma quinquedentata mesopotamica Bischoff, 1920, syn. nov.); D. irana Lelej, 1985 (=D. kompantsevi Lelej, 1995, syn. nov.); D. sabulicola (Skorikov, 1935) (=D. zаrudnуi Lelej, 1985, syn. nov.); D. persica (Sichel et Radoszkowski, 1869) (=Smicromyrme ursina Nagy, 1972, syn. nov.); Skorikovia trinotata (Costa, 1858) (=Mutilla curtiventris André, 1901, syn. nov.; Mutilla viduata var. rubescens André, 1901, syn. nov.). A lectotype of Mutilla testacea Klug 1829, ♂ is designated. New combinations are proposed for Dentilla semirubra (Bischoff, 1920), comb. nov. and D. gabesiana (Bischoff, 1920), comb. nov. (both from the genus Ephutomma Ashmead, 1899) and Skorikovia caucasica (Lelej, 1985), comb. nov. (from the genus Dentilla). Dentilla weidneri (Nagy, 1971) is transferred to the genus Smicromyrme incertae sedis. Fourteen new country records are presented: two from India, two from Pakistan, two from Syria, two from Jordan, one from Turkey, one from Israel, one from Egypt, one from Saudi Arabia, one from Oman, and one from Eritrea. The genus Ephutomma s. str. is removed from the Afrotropical fauna.

 

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Lelej, A.S. (2025) Revision of the genus Dentilla Lelej in Lelej et Kabakov, 1980 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Zootaxa, 5633 (2), 288–315. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.2.4