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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

Tribe Pseudomethocini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Works Cited
Velvet Ant - Pseudomethoca simillima - female Pseudomethoca oceola - female Pseudomethoca vanduzei - female Velvet Ant - Pseudomethoca frigida Velvet Ant - Pseudomethoca frigida Velvet Ant - Pseudomethoca frigida Velvet Pseudomethoca frigida - female
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 Sphaeropthalminae
Tribe Pseudomethocini
Explanation of Names
Pseudomethocini Brothers 1975
Numbers
~43 spp. in 2 genera in our area:(1)(2) Myrmilloides (1 sp.), Pseudomethoca (42 spp.)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
2.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 Jonathan Hoskins on 11 November, 2020 - 12:16pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 16 July, 2023 - 5:31pm

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