Odontophotopsis aufidia Mickel

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 : 7

Odontophotopsis aufidia Mickel

Odontophotopsis (Odontophotopsis) aufidia Mickel, 1983 . Ann. Amer. Ent. Soc. 76: 541. Male. Holotype data: Taft, California, 12 Jun 1942, W.C. Cook (UMSP).

Diagnosis of male. This species is recognized by the following combination of characters: the mandible is excised ventrally forming an angle and tapering towards the vertical apex ( Fig. 5 ; see Fig. 43 in Pitts et al. 2009), the mesosternum only has one pair of distinct spines, the metasternum is bidentate, and the pygidium is granulate, but is not defined laterally by carinae. The genitalia are illustrated by Pitts et al. (2009) in Fig. 9 .

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. California, Riverside Co.: Deep Canyon, 1 male, 7–14.Sep.1973, coll. A. Tabet.

Distribution. Southern California northward into the Californian Central Valley.

Remarks. This species is abundant in the Central Valley of California, but is rare at Deep Canyon and in southern California. This species is a member of the O. parva species-group.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 12. Head, anterior view. 1. Acanthophotopsis falciformis; 2. Acrophotopsis campylognatha; 3. Odontophotopsis acmaea; 4. O. armata; 5. O. aufidia; 6. O. bellona; 7. O. biramosa; 8. O. clypeata; 9. O. inconspicua; 10. O. mamata; 11. O. melicausa; and 12. O. quadrispinosa.

FIGURES 38 – 43. Sphaeropthalma chandleri, sp. nov.: 38. Head, anterior view; and 39. Habitus. Sphaeropthalma fergusoni, sp. nov.: 40. Pygidium, dorsal view; 41. Head anterior view; 42. Head, dorsal view; and 43. Habitus.