Mutilla mikado Cameron, 1900

Lelej, Arkady S., Williams, Kevin A., Terine, Joshua B., Okayasu, Juriya, Parikh, Grishma R. & Kumar, Girish P., 2023, Review of the tribe Mutillini (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from the Oriental Region, Zootaxa 5228 (4), pp. 455-476 : 467-468

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scientific name	Mutilla mikado Cameron, 1900
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Mutilla mikado Cameron, 1900 ; 75, ♀, type locality [“ Japan ”]

Mutilla rugiceps maesta Chen, 1957: 151 , ♀, holotype, ♀, Kirin [Heilongjiang], Kaolintze [Gaolinzi], 16.vi.1940 [Heude Museum, Shanghai (now Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences)]. Junior subjective synonym of M. mikado according to Lelej 1985: 161.

Mutilla europaea: Su et al. 2019: 104 , parasite of Bombus breviceps View in CoL ( China: Yunnan). Misidentification.

Material examined. RUSSIA: * Kuril Islands, SW Kunashir, Ivanovskij Cape , 28– 29.09.2013, Yu. & L. Sundukov, 2♀ [ IBSS] . CHINA: * Sichuan, 35 km W Zhangle , 3620–3720 m, 12–13.VII.2001, S. Murzin, 1♀ [ IBSS] ; * Shaanxi, S of Huaxian, SE Damingzhen, Huashan Mts. , 2010–2155 m, 24.V.2009, I. Belousov & I. Kabak, 1♀ [ IBSS] .

Distribution. Russia: Eastern Siberia (south), Far East (Amurskaya oblast, Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai, Sakhalin, *Kuril Islands (Kunashir)); China (Gansu, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Neimenggu, Shanxi, * Shaanxi, * Sichuan, Zhejiang, Yunnan), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku), North Korea, South Korea.

Remarks. Unlike the other species treated here, Mutilla mikado is predominantly a Palaearctic species and only occurs in a few Oriental areas of China. In some older papers (e. g., Chen 1957), this species was treated as a subspecies of Mutilla europaea Linnaeus, 1758 . More recently, Mutilla europaea was recorded as a parasite of Bombus breviceps Smith, 1852 , in Yunnan, China, but the mutillid in question was later determined to be Mutilla mikado , which is the only Mutilla species known to occur in Oriental regions of China.

References

Cameron, P. (1900) Hymenoptera Orientalia, or Contributions to the knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental Zoological Region. Part IX. The Hymenoptera of the Khasia Hills. Part II. Section I. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 44 (15), 1 - 114.

Chen, C. - w. (1957) A revision of the velvet ants or Mutillidae of China (Hymenoptera). Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 10 (3 - 4), 135 - 224, 6 pls.

Lelej, A. S. (1985) Osy-nemki (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) Fauny SSSR i Sopredelnykh Stran [The Velvet Ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of the USSR and Neighbouring Countries]. Nauka, Leningrad, 268 pp. [in Russian]

Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima Reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm], [4] + 823 + [5] pp.

Su, W., Liang, C., Ding, G., Jiang, Y., Huang, J. & Wu, J. (2019) First record of the velvet ant Mutilla europaea (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) parasitizing the bumblebee Bombus breviceps (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Insects, 10 (4), 104. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / insects 10040104

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Mutilla and Kurzenkotilla. 1–4. M. mikado: 1–2. ♀, habitus (1. Dorsal view; 2. Lateral view), 3–4. Male, habitus (3. Dorsal view, 4. Lateral view). 5–6. K. ariana, ♀ (5. Lateral view, 6. Dorsal view). (Photographs by K. Williams and A. Lelej).