Smicromyrme brothersi, Lelej, 2024

Lelej, A. S., 2024, REVIEW OF THE VELVET ANTS (HYMENOPTERA: MUTILLIDAE) OF WALLACEA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LOMBOK, INDONESIA, Far Eastern Entomologist 504, pp. 1-25 : 10-11

Smicromyrme brothersi sp. n.

https://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/ 846A310C-56E9-47D9-8D1C-25F97368C027

Figs 9–11

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Holotype ♀, Indonesia, Lombok , near Senggigi, 450 m, forest, 8º28ʹ31.9ʺS 116º2,96ʹE, 18.V 2012 (MM) [ IBSS]. Paratypes, same place, 9.V 2012, 1♀ (MM); 18.V 2012, 4♀ (MM); same place, 22.V 2012, 1♀ (MM) .

DIAGNOSIS. FEMALE. Differs from all oriental congeners in the absence of the medial basal spot on T2. MALE. Unknown.

DESCRIPTION. FEMALE. Body length 4.8-6.0 mm. Head black, brownish beneath, mandible, clypeus and antenna largely brown. Mesosoma ferruginous, femora and tibia brownish. Metasoma black. Body setae generally sparse and silvery, except vertex, T2 and T4-5 with blackish setae; mesosomal dorsum with reddish setae and T1 apex, T2 apical band, T3 entire and T6 laterally with dense whitish-silvery setae. Head. Width behind eye equal to width of pronotum. Frons, vertex and genae with separate punctures. Mandibular apex obscurely bidentate. Clypeus with narrow, transversely medially emargined lamella; basomedial part with carinae forming tubercle. Antennal scrobe without dorsal carina. Antennal tubercle smooth. Genal carina obliterated. F1 1.2 × pedicel length, F2 1.3 × pedicel length. Mesosoma. Length 1.3 × maximum width. Dorsum of mesosoma with coarse confluent punctures. Side of mesosoma with scattered moderate punctures with appressed setae, interspaces mostly smooth, propodeal side with distinct reticulation posteriorly. Mesopleural lamella absent. Humeral carina simple, rounded dorsally. Scutellar scale transversely arcuate, ~4 punctures wide. Lateral and posterior propodeal surfaces separated by slightly wavy carina. Metasoma. T1- 5 with small dense punctures, less on T1. S1 with simple longitudinal carina. T2 felt line 0.5 × total length of T2. T6 with long ovate pygidium; with parallel striae (16 at widest point), posterior fifth smooth. S6 posterior margin bidentate.

DISTRIBUTION. Indonesia (Lombok).

ETYMOLOGY. I am pleased to name this new species in honour of Denis Brothers, world authority on the classification and evolution of Mutillidae and Aculeate and my best colleague. Treat as noun in apposition.

Figures

Figs 9–17. Mutillidae. 9–11 – Smicromyrme brothersi sp. n., ♀, holotype; 12–14 – Krombeinidia mokrousovi sp. n., ♀, paratype; 15–17 – K. wallacei sp. n., ♀, paratype. 9, 12, 15 – habitus, dorsal view, 10, 13, 16 – habitus, lateral view; 10, 14, 17 – pygidial area. 12