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Subfamily Sphaeropthalminae

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

Male sphaeropthalmine mutillid wasps of the Nevada Test Site

By Ferguson, William
Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, 8(4): 1-26, 1967

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 21 August, 2024 - 2:54am

A revision of the Sphaeropthalmus Mutillidae of America north of Mexico II

By R. M. Schuster
Entomologica Americana , 1957

Available Here
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/205519#page/11/mode/1up

Needed because it has the only available key for males of Photomorphus.

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Contributed by Glen Forister on 17 December, 2024 - 12:02pm

Clarification of the status of Paraferreola as an available genus name in Pompilidae, and the identity of Sphex ursus ...

By Denis J. Brothers, Arkady S. Lelej, & Kevin A. Williams
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 91: 429-444, 2022

Full title: Clarification of the status of Paraferreola Šustera, 1912 as an available genus name in Pompilidae, and the identity of Sphex ursus Fabricius, 1793 in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera)

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 6 January, 2023 - 6:38pm

A revision Of Lomachaeta Mickel, with a new species of Smicromutilla Mickel (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

By James P. Pitts and Donald G. Manley
Zootaxa, Vol. 474, 10.11646/zootaxa.474.1.1., 2004

Smicromutilla has since been determined to be a junior synonym of Lomachaeta. (1)

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 24 February, 2019 - 6:14pm

Two new species of Lomachaeta, with a key to described species (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae)

By C. E. Mickel
The Pan-Pacific entomologist, Vol. 16, pp. 127-131, 1940

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 19 February, 2019 - 9:35pm

Eight new species of Lomachaeta Mickel and the synonymy of Smicromutilla Mickel (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

By Kevin A Williams and James P Pitts
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp .227-243, 2009

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 16 February, 2019 - 4:40pm

Keys to nearctic Velvet Ants of the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with notes on taxonomic changes...

By Manley D.G. , Williams K.A., Pitts J.P.
Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 122: 335-414, 2020

Full title: Keys to nearctic Velvet Ants of the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with notes on taxonomic changes since Krombein (1979)
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Contributed by v belov on 6 June, 2023 - 8:45pm

Does the thistledown velvet ant (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) mimic Creosote bush seeds? A phylogenetic approach

By Kevin A. Williams, Joseph S Wilson, and James Purser Pitts
Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting [Conference], 2010

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 25 June, 2021 - 1:53am

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