Mutilla Linnaeus, 1758

Lelej, Arkady S. & Brothers, Denis J., 2008, The genus-group names of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) and their type species, with a new genus, new name, new synonymies, new combinations and lectotypifications, Zootaxa 1889 (1), pp. 1-79 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1889.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15651918
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scientific name	Mutilla Linnaeus, 1758
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Mutilla Linnaeus, 1758 . Systema Naturae: 582. Female, male.

Gender. Feminine.

Type species. Mutilla europaea Linnaeus, 1758 (female), by subsequent designation of Latreille, 1810: 437. For discussions of type species see Morice & Durrant (1915: 429–430) and Bradley (1919: 71).

Taxonomic history. Valid generic name.

Sex association. The male of the type species was described by Linnaeus, 1767: 967 (through a printer's error the decription of male Mutilla europaea was placed after the description of Mutilla atrata according to Petersen, 1988: 161).

Distribution. Afrotropical, Palaearctic, Oriental.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Mutillidae

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