Ephucilla bacbo (Lelej, 1995)

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 : 38

Ephucilla bacbo (Lelej, 1995)

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( Figs 11C, 11D)

Sinotilla bacbo Lelej, 1995b: 24 , ♀, holotype ♀ (Trung Trang, Haiphong, North Vietnam) [ZISP]; Lelej 1996c: 98, ♀. Ephucilla bacbo : Lelej 2005: 39; Lo Cascio 2015: 548; Okayasu et al. 2018: 309, ♀; Okayasu 2020: 64, ♀; Pagliano et al. 2020:

171; Boutin & Vilhelmsen 2024: supplementary table S2, S3, ♀.

Previous record. This species was described from Hai Phong by Lelej (1995b).

Distribution. Indonesia. Vietnam: Hai Phong.

Occurrence in Vietnam. January. Red River freshwater swamp forests ecoregion.

Sex association. Male unknown.

Remarks. This species can be most readily separated from the other Vietnamese Ephucilla by having the second metasomal tergum metallic blue ( Fig. 11C vs. Fig. 11E) and marked with a mesal whitish setal spot. This species is known from two females collected in northern Vietnam and Borneo. Additional material might be found from the intermediate regions.