Dilophotopsis paron ( Cameron )

Pitts, James P., Wilson, Joseph S., Williams, Kevin A. & Boehme, Nicole F., 2010, Nocturnal velvet ant males (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) of Deep Canyon, California including four new species and a fifth new species from Owens Lake Valley, California, Zootaxa 2553, pp. 1-34 : 4-6

Dilophotopsis paron ( Cameron)

Sphaerophthalma (sic) paron Cameron, 1896 . Biol. Cent.-Amer. 37: 88. Male. Holotype data: Mexico, Northern Sonora , Morrison ( BMNH).

Dilophotopsis concolor sonorensis Schuster, 1958 . Ent. Amer. 37: 88. Male. Holotype data: Arizona, Gila Bend, 24.Apr. 1935, F.H. Parker ( UMSP).

Diagnosis of male. The male of this species has greatly dilated mandibles that are deeply excised ventrally (e.g., Fig. 2), has mesosternal processes in the form of tubercles ( Fig. 51) that are relatively wide and shagreened on their apex, has a flattened hypopygidium that is carinate anterolaterally and has distinctive genitalia with the paramere, and cuspis dorsoventrally flattened and the cuspis elbowed ( Fig. 50).

Female. Unknown.

Materials examined. California, Riverside Co.: Deep Canyon, 3 males, 16.May. 63.

Distribution. Restricted to the Mojave and western Sonoran Deserts of Arizona, California, and Nevada, and the deserts of Baja California, and Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Remarks. This genus was reviewed by Wilson and Pitts (2008).