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Timulla -? - Timulla suspensa - female
Copyright © 2010 Kurt Schaefer

Timulla -? - Timulla suspensa - Female
8 mile north of Texhoma, Texas County, Oklahoma, USA
August 22, 2010
Size: 10 mm

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Contributed by Kurt Schaefer on 23 August, 2010 - 12:17pm
Last updated 13 July, 2011 - 4:08pm

Timulla suspensa
Moved from Timulla.
… George Waldren, 13 July, 2011 - 4:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Dr. Waldren,
I appreciate the ID.
… Kurt Schaefer, 4 September, 2011 - 6:57am login or register to post comments

how do you know this is a tim
how do you know this is a timulla?
… J. Anderson, 23 August, 2010 - 1:48pm login or register to post comments

 
By looking at
images of the genus in the Guide. Her abdominal color pattern seems somewhat common. I'd be happy to learn otherwise.
… Kurt Schaefer, 23 August, 2010 - 4:02pm login or register to post comments

 
it looked like one to me too
but please don't put it in the guide unless you're sure
… J. Anderson, 24 August, 2010 - 3:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Right on!
The abdominal pattern is pretty distinctive for the genus.

The best way to be sure is to look at the thorax shape. In Dasymutilla and Pseudomethoca, the anterior and posterior parts of the thorax are significantly narrower than the middle in a dorsal view; basically, the sides of most New World mutillid thoraxes are convex. In Timulla, the middle is narrower, or equally as wide as the anterior and posterior portions of the thorax, making the sides somewhat concave or possibly parallel.
… Kevin Williams, 23 August, 2010 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

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