Mickelomyrme athalia ( Pagden, 1949 )

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 : 39-40

Mickelomyrme athalia ( Pagden, 1949)

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Smicromyrme athalia Pagden, 1949: 219 , ♂ ♀, holotype ♂ (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) [NHMUK].

Mickelomyrme athalia : Lelej 1995a: 17; Lelej 1996d: 280, ♂ ♀; Lelej 2005: 43; Okayasu et al. 2018: 303, ♀; Williams et al. 2019b: 18 , ♂ ♀; Okayasu 2020: 44, ♂; Pagliano et al. 2020: 174; Boutin & Vilhelmsen 2024: supplementary table S2, S3, ♀.

Mickelomyrme hageni ( Zavattari, 1913) : Barthélémy et al. 2018: 235 , ♂; Barthélémy & Guénard 2025: 75, ♂. Misidentification.

Material examined. 16♀. Vietnam: BA RIA-VUNG TAU: Xuyen Moc, Binh Chau , 4.I.2002, K. Okajima leg. [3♀ TUA]; Xuyen Moc, Binh Chau, 4.I.2002, S. Okajima leg. [1♀ TUA]; Xuyen Moc, Binh Chau, 5.I.2002, T. Ishikawa leg. [3♀ TUA]; Xuyen Moc, Binh Chau, 5.I.2002, H. Mizushima leg. [2♀ TUA]; Xuyen Moc, Binh Chau, 5.I.2002, S. Okajima leg. [7♀ TUA] .

Identification source. Compared with voucher specimens from Thailand ( Williams et al. 2019b) [THNHM].

Previous record. This species was recorded from Hoa Binh by Okayasu (2020).

Distribution. China. Laos. Malaysia. Thailand. Vietnam: Hoa Binh, Ba Ria-Vung Tau *.

Occurrence in Vietnam. January, July. Northern Indochina subtropical forests and Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests ecoregions.

Sex association. This species was described from both sexes collected at the same place and time.

Remarks. This is a relatively widespread species and one of the most commonly encountered smicromyrmine species in Thailand ( Williams et al. 2019b).