Zavatilla Tsuneki 1993
Creators: name: Zhou, Hu-Ting
name: Lelej, Arkady S.
name: Williams, Kevin A.
name: Liu, Jing-Xian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Zavatilla

description: Key to species of Zavatilla
1. Males.............................................................................................. 2
- Females............................................................................................. 4
2. Metasomal segments 1–3 ferruginous; metasomal tergum 2 apically with fringe of oblique pale orange setae................................................................................................... Z. xuzaifui sp. nov.
- Metasomal segments 1–3 black; metasomal tergum 2 apically with narrow band of dense decumbent white or golden setae. 3
3. Tegula brownish; scapal carina apically without yellow strip; disc of metasomal tergum 2 with large wide smooth and shiny area; metasomal tergum 2 posteriorly and metasomal tergum 3 with band of dense whitish decumbent setae; apex of volsellar digitus and apex of penis valve located on same level................................... Z. gutrunae (Zavattari, 1913)
- Tegula yellowish; scapal carina apically with yellow strip; disc of metasomal tergum 2 with smaller smooth and shiny area; metasomal tergum 2 posteriorly and metasomal tergum 3 with band of dense golden decumbent setae; apex of volsellar digitus evidentlylocatedproximallyofapexofpenisvalve................. Z. flavotegulata (Chen, 1957)
4. Scape, pedicel, flagellomere 1, and legs black; dorsal clypeal transverse carina with inconspicuous sublateral tubercles which are smaller than basal median tubercle.................................................................... 5
- Scape, pedicel, and flagellomere 1 ferruginous or brownish-ferruginous, legs ferruginous; dorsal clypeal transverse carina with lateral tubercles as large as median clypeal tubercle.......................................................... 6
5. Metasomal tergum 2 posteriorly with fringe of pale setae; metasomal sternum 1 with longitudinal carina divided by deep emargination into equal anterior and posterior parts. China (Taiwan) ........................ Z. gutrunae (Zavattari, 1913)
- Metasomal tergum 2 posteriorly with fringe of black setae. Metasomal sternum 1 with longitudinal carina having inconspicuousemargination................................ Z. nepalensis sp. nov.
6. Scape, pedicel, and flagellomere 1 ferruginous; legs totally ferruginous; mesonotum with well-developed prescutellar row of denticles................................ Z. flavotegulata (Chen, 1957)
- Scape brownish; legs ferruginous with brownish tibiae; mesonotum with inconspicuous prescutellar row of denticles............................................................................................ Z. xuzaifui sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Hu-Ting, Lelej, Arkady S., Williams, Kevin A. & Liu, Jing-Xian, 2018, Revision of the Oriental genus Zavatilla Tsuneki (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae, Trogaspidiini), with descriptions of two new species, pp. 101-120 in Zootaxa 4418 (2) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242733