Sinotilla ansula ( Chen, 1957 )

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 : 50

Sinotilla ansula ( Chen, 1957)

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Smicromyrme ansula Chen, 1957: 204 , ♂, holotype ♂ ( Tienmushan [= Tianmushan], Chekiang [= Zhejiang], China) [ TARI]; He et al. 2004: 944, ♂ .

Sinotilla ansula : Lelej 1995b: 19; Lelej 2005: 56; Hua 2006: 300; Pagliano et al. 2020: 186.

Material examined. 1♂. Vietnam: NINH BINH: Cuc Phuong National Park , 10–12.VIII.1998, Sk. Yamane leg. [1♂ SKYC] .

Identification source. Compared with types [ TARI] .

Previous record. None.

Distribution. China. Vietnam *: Ninh Binh.

Occurrence in Vietnam. August. Northern Indochina subtropical forests ecoregion.

Sex association. Female unknown.

Remarks. This species has been known from a series of type specimens collected at the type locality. The Vietnamese specimen has the meso- and metatibiae more broadly black but otherwise it is identical to the types.