Promecidia abnormis Lelej, 2016

Okayasu, Juriya, Lelej, Arkady S., Williams, Kevin A., Brabant, Craig M., Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, Nguyen, Anh Duc, Pham, Thai Hong & Truong, Tuong Thi Cat, 2025, Current knowledge on the velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Myrmosidae) of Vietnam: faunal review and new distributional records, Zootaxa 5668 (1), pp. 1-104 : 68

Promecidia abnormis Lelej, 2016

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Promecidia abnormis Lelej in Lelej et al., 2016: 107 , ♂, holotype ♂ (Nankunshan Provincial Nature Reserve, Guangdong, China) [SCAU]; Pagliano et al. 2020: 257.

Material examined. 2♂. Vietnam: DAK LAK: Chu Yang Sin NP, near river, 740 m, 1–10.VI.2007, C. v. Achterberg & R. de Vries leg., malaise [1♂ RMNH]; Chu Yang Sin NP, Krong K’Mar, 760 m, 21–26.X.2005, C. v. Achterberg & R. de Vries leg., malaise [1♂ RMNH] .

Identification source. Keyed using Lelej et al. (2016) and compared with the original description.

Previous record. None.

Distribution. China. Vietnam *: Dak Lak.

Occurrence in Vietnam. June, October. Southern Annamites montane rain forests and Southeast Indochina dry evergreen forests ecoregions. 740–760 m alt.

Sex association. Female unknown.

Remarks. This species can be recognized by the small sharp ventral mandibular tooth and tooth-like carina on the second metasomal sternum. It is much rarer than Promecidia birmanica ( Dalla Torre, 1897) .