AZC 46 Supplement (2003)

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VOL NA

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Ephuta clavigera, Oligo-Miocene, taxonomy, classification, phylogeny

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The first fossil Ephutini (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), a new species of Ephuta SAY from Dominican amber

• Denis BROTHERS

Abstract:

Very few species of fossils properly attributed to Mutillidae have been described: several Myrmosinae (Protomutilla BISCHOFF) from Late Eocene Baltic amber and two Sphaeropthalminae (Dasymutilla ASHMEAD) from Early Miocene Dominican amber. This paper describes the first fossil species of Mutillinae (Ephuta clavigera sp. nov.), also from Dominican amber. It differs from all modern species, most strikingly in its possession of thickened clavate setae on the head, body and legs.