Liomutilla Andre 1907
Creators: name: Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio
name: Palmerini, Maurizio Matteini
name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Liomutilla

description: Liomutilla André, 1907
Liomutilla André, 1907: 340.
Type species. Liomutilla canariensis André, 1907 (♀), by monotypy.
Diagnosis. ♀. Head entirely reddish; integument of the body polished and shiny; head with scattered and fine punctures; supra-antennal tooth absent; frontal carina touching inner margin of eye; antennal rim entirely exposed, visible dorsally; gena (lateral view) more or less concave, slim, angulate, without tooth-like process; genal carina present; occipital margin curved; upper part of occipital carina as wide rim; T2 with two round cuticular ivory spots disposed transversely, without setae; spots of T2 far from anterior margin (distance between spots and anterior margin more than diameter of each spot).
♂. Head entirely brownish orange; integument of the body polished and shiny; head with scattered and fine punctures; head strongly convergent toward occipital margin; longitudinal frontal furrow present, touching anterior ocellus; ocelli well developed tegula and wings well developed, not reduced; notaulus absent, parapsidal line present; fore wing with vein 2m-cu absent; metasoma entirely brownish orange; T2 without pale spots; S8 with sides subparallel, with two raised tooth-like ventral and median processes disposed transversely; genital capsule with cuspis of volsella elongate, finger-shaped, apex regularly rounded, weakly convex to flat toward apex, ending well beyond mid length of paramere harpe, without longitudinal carina; digitus of volsella much shorter than cuspis, about half its length; midventral process of penis valve present, elongate and strongly curved.
Redescription. ♀. Head entirely reddish with antennal rim concolorous with rest of head (Figs 33 A, 33B, 33C); mesosoma reddish orange darkened anteromedially and on sides (Figs 32 A, 32B); metasoma entirely blackish (Figs 32 A, 32B); integument of the body polished and shiny; head regularly rounded behind eyes, with scattered and fine punctures, without whitish setal spot on vertex and occiput (Fig. 33 A); supra-antennal tooth absent (Figs 33 A, 33D); antennal rim entirely exposed, visible dorsally (Fig. 33 A); A1 with ventro-lateral carina; A3 much more than two times length of A2; frontal carina touching inner margin of eye (Fig. 33 D); postgena (behind oral fossa) weakly concave (Fig. 33 B); occipital margin curved (Fig. 33 A); upper part of occipital carina as wide rim; lower part of occipital carina as well raised lamella; gena (lateral view) with lower half slim, angulate, without tooth-like process (Fig. 33 B); genal carina present (Fig. 33 B); clypeus not prominent, wider than high, anterior margin wide, concave with lateral tooth-like projection (Fig. 33 D); oral fossa longer than wide, almost Ushaped; mandible with inner apical tooth normally shaped, not curved (Fig. 33 D); mandible with inner basal tooth (Fig. 33 D); pronotum slightly narrower than propodeum (Fig. 32 A); pronotum with epomial carina weak, far from pronotal spiracle; fore coxa with distal tooth-like process; mid tibia with 6–7 dorsal pre-apical spines arranged in two rows; hind tibia with 5 dorsal pre-apical spines arranged in two rows; T2 with two round cuticular ivory spots disposed transversely without setae, far from anterior margin (distance between spot and anterior margin of T2 much more than diameter of a spot (Figs 32 A, 32B); T3 with broad pubescent band, widely interrupted medially (Figs 32 A, 32B); T4 without broad pubescent band (Figs 32 A, 32B); S6 flat.
♂. Head brownish orange, antennal rim concolorous with rest of head (Figs 33 E, 33F, 33G); mesosoma and metasoma entirely brownish orange (Figs 32 C, 32D); integument of the body polished and shiny (Figs 32 C, 32D); head strongly convergent posteriorly, with scattered and fine punctures (Fig. 33 E); A1 with ventro-lateral carina; A3 shorter than A4; ocelli well developed (Fig. 33 E); longitudinal frontal furrow present, touching anterior ocellus (Fig. 33 E); occipital carina (lower part) as well raised lamella; clypeus not prominent, wider than high, anterior margin wide, moderately concave with lateral stout tooth-like projection (Fig. 33 H); oral fossa longer than wide, almost U-shaped; mandible with inner apical tooth straight, not curved; pronotum with sides convergent toward anterior margin (Fig. 32 C); posterior margin of pronotum V-shaped (Fig. 32 C); pronotum, median length less than half lateral length (pronotum short) (Fig. 32 C); mesoscutum convex (Fig. 32 D); notaulus absent, parapsidal line present; transscutal suture well developed, evident; tegula sub-circular, well developed, normal sized (Fig. 34); fore and hind wings present and well developed (Fig. 34); fore wing, submarginal cell 2 strongly smaller than submarginal cell 1 (less than half), vein 2m-cu absent (Fig. 34); mesoscutellum and metascutellum well defined (Figs 32 C, 32D); anterior and posterior metanotal carinae well raised; propodeum (lateral view) sloping (Fig. 32 D), narrower than pronotum (dorsal view) (Fig. 32 C); mesopleuron strongly convex, polished punctate, width of upper part about half width of lower part; mid tibia with one dorsal pre-apical spine; hind tibia with one dorso-lateral preapical spine; T1 campanulate (Fig. 32 C); T2 without setal or cuticular spots (Figs 32 C, 32D); T3 and T4 without pale pubescent band; S2 with medial well developed, tooth-like process; S8 with sides subparallel, with two raised tooth-like ventral and median processes disposed transversely (Figs 35 D, 35E, 35F); genital capsule with cuspis of volsella elongate, finger-shaped, apex regularly rounded, weakly convex to flat toward apex, ending well beyond mid length of paramere harpe, without longitudinal carina (Figs 35 A, 35B, 35C); digitus of volsella much shorter than cuspis, about half its length (Fig. 35 B); midventral process of penis valve present, elongate and strongly curved.
Species included. Liomutilla canariensis André, 1907.
Distribution. Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma) (Fig. 37).
description: Published as part of Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio, Palmerini, Maurizio Matteini & Brothers, Denis J., 2015, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the genera Blakeius Ashmead, 1903 and Liomutilla André, 1907, with description of two new genera (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Myrmillinae), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4010 (1) on pages 62-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4010.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289318