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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) » Mutillinae » Trogaspidiini » Timulla

Genus Timulla

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
velvet ant - Timulla suspensa - female Mutillid of sorts... - Timulla ferrugata - female Timulla sp. - Timulla vagans Timulla euterpe - female Timulla - Timulla coahuila Timulla sp? - Timulla vagans Dasymutilla sp. - Timulla - female Unknown ant species - Timulla vagans
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Pompiloidea (Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies)
Family Mutillidae (Velvet Ants)
Subfamily Mutillinae
Tribe Trogaspidiini
Genus Timulla
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Revised in (1), updated in (2)
Explanation of Names
Timulla Ashmead 1899
Numbers
30 spp. in our area, ~180 total(2)
Identification
Characteristics of females:(3)
eyes strongly ovate
mesosoma long, rectangular, typically narrowed in middle
tergite II generally maculated with two spots or lines of pale setae
Range
New World, 3 spp. range into Canada(2)
Works Cited
1.The mutillid wasps of the genus Timulla, which occur in North America north of Mexico. Entomologica Americana 17: 1-119
Mickel, C.E. 1937. Brooklyn Entomological Society.
2.Taxonomic notes on velvet ants of the genus Timulla Ashmead, 1899 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in the United States of America ...
Waldren, G.C. 2024. Insecta Mundi 1055: 1–20.
3.A key to genera and subgenera of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) in America North of Mexico with description of a new genus
Manley D.G., Pitts J.P. 2002. J. Hym. Res. 11: 72-100.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 17 March, 2005 - 11:22pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, waspGeorge, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 17 November, 2024 - 3:30pm

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