Cockerellidia Lelej & Krombein, 1999

Williams, Kevin A., Lelej, Arkady S., Okayasu, Juriya, Borkent, Christopher J., Malee, Rufeah, Thoawan, Kodeeyah & Thaochan, Narit, 2019, The female velvet ants (aka modkhong) of southern Thailand (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with a key to the genera of southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4602 (1), pp. 1-69 : 30

Genus 16. Cockerellidia Lelej & Krombein, 1999

Diagnosis. FEMALE. Immediately recognizable by the large red-brown head, small eyes, laterally swollen mesonotum, and dense elongate setae covering the body. See Lelej and Krombein (1999) for additional traits. MALE. Unknown.

Diversity and Distribution. One species from northern Thailand.

Remarks. Cockerellidia sohmi ( Cockerell, 1928) ( Fig. 15 ) is known only from the unique type collected in an uncertain locality of northern Thailand: “ Siam near Mecatin”. It is similar to the following genus, Karlidia Lelej in Lelej & Krombein, 1999 , which was described in the same publication. The most recent phylogenetic reconstruction ( Brothers & Lelej 2017) indicates that Cockerellidia and Karlidia belong to the subtribe Ephutina of the tribe Mutillini in subfamily Mutillinae , rather than Sphaeropthalminae . The unknown males of these genera are likely to be confused with Odontomutilla Ashmead, 1899 or Yamanetilla Lelej, 1996.

Figures

FIGURES 1–28. Mutillidae, dorsal habitus of females. Scale bars represent actual specimen length.