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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 » Ephutini » Ephuta

Genus Ephuta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
ephuta floridiana - Ephuta floridiana - male Wasp - Ephuta - male red eyed wasp? - Ephuta - male fuzzy wasp - Ephuta - male Ephuta - female velvet ant? - Ephuta Last Mountain Lake Ephuta conchate - Ephuta conchate - female Last Mountain Lake Ephuta conchate - Ephuta conchate - 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 Ephutini
Genus Ephuta
Explanation of Names
Ephuta Say 1836
Numbers
~29 spp. in our area(1)(2)
Range
N. & S. America
Remarks
The only member of the tribe Mutillini within our range.
Print References
Schuster, R.M. 1951. A revision of the genus Ephuta (Mutillidae) in America north of Mexico [part 1]. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 59(1): 1-43.
Schuster, R.M. 1959. A revision of the genus Ephuta (Mutillidae) in America north of Mexico [part 2]. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 64: 7-84.
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 tom murray on 5 November, 2005 - 8:07am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, waspGeorge, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 28 May, 2022 - 8:10pm

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