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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) » Sphaeropthalminae » Pseudomethocini » Pseudomethoca » Pseudomethoca simillima
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Pseudomethoca - Pseudomethoca simillima - female
Copyright © 2012 Jordan Gesell

Pseudomethoca - Pseudomethoca simillima - Female
Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi, USA
April 16, 2011
Size: 8.5mm
One of my earliest mutillid catches. I just recently realized that I had misinterpreted the description of the main character used to identify P. simillima. What I thought I was looking for was not the same as what I should have been looking for. So, just for confirmation, the dentate processes are at the back of the thorax and not on the beginning of the abdomen, correct?

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Contributed by Jordan Gesell on 14 May, 2012 - 8:58pm
Last updated 7 August, 2021 - 1:48pm

Moved
Moved from Pseudomethoca.
… George Waldren, 7 August, 2021 - 1:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Velvet Ants.
… George Waldren, 23 June, 2012 - 2:18pm login or register to post comments

There should be 3-4 of them in a row
along both sides of the edges of the propodeum. This shot shows them fairly well here and especially here.
… George Waldren, 14 May, 2012 - 11:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Alright, so is this one not P
Alright, so is this one not P. simillima?
… Jordan Gesell, 15 May, 2012 - 7:22pm login or register to post comments

 
You decide this time
The sides of the propodeum are a bit blurry in the photos, so I am unable to tell.

The propodeum is the very back part of the mesosoma (=thorax), so look at the back vertical face of it (the back sloping part that leads up to the dorsal part of the mesosoma). Along both sides, there is a row of 3-4 denticles/spines sticking out. Take another look at the photos I linked to and look for these 3-4 denticles at the back of the mesosoma.
… George Waldren, 15 May, 2012 - 9:16pm login or register to post comments

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