15. Genus Ronisia Costa, 1858

Type species: Ronisia torosa Costa, 1858, ♂, by monotypy (junior synonym of Mutilla brutia Petagna, 1787, ♀).

Forty-four species and 19 subspecies are recognized in Ronisia, most taxa of this genus occur in the Afrotropical Region, but eight species occur in the Palaearctic Region (Pagliano et al. 2020). One species of this genus occurs in Azerbaijan.