Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870

Lelej, A. S., 2020, Three new species of velvet ants from the tribe Smicromyrmini (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with unusual color syndrome, Far Eastern Entomologist 421, pp. 1-9 : 6

Genus Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870

Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870: 208 .

Type species: Mutilla rufipes Fabricius, 1787, ♀, by original designation.

SPECIES INCLUDED. There are five subgenera including nominotypical and

266 valid species and 23 valid subspecies which are recognized from the Palaearctic,

Afrotropical, and Oriental regions (Pagliano et al., 2020). The Palaearctic fauna are well-divided into subgenera based on characters from both sexes, but especially in males. A new species, S. burgeri sp. n. from the subgenus Eremotilla Lelej, 1985 , is described here.