Occurrence of Andreimyrme substriolata (Chen, 1957) and Odontomutilla fletcheri Lelej, Terine & Girish Kumar, 2020 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) in India, with note on their geographical affinities

Terine, Joshua Benjamin; Das, Dipanwita; Girish Kumar, Puthuvayi

doi:10.61186/jibs.10.1.81

Occurrence of Andreimyrme substriolata (Chen, 1957) and Odontomutilla fletcheri Lelej, Terine & Girish Kumar, 2020 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) in India, with note on their geographical affinities

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Joshua Benjamin Terine ¹

Dipanwita Das ²

Puthuvayi Girish Kumar ³

¹ Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala–673006, India [1]; University of Calicut, Thenhipalam, Malappuram, Kerala-673635, India [2].

² Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal–700053, India.

³ Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala–673006, India.

10.61186/jibs.10.1.81

Abstract

Andreimyrme substriolata (Chen, 1957) and Odontomutilla fletcheri Lelej, Terine & Girish Kumar, 2020 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) are newly reported from India. O. fletcheri was only recorded from Sri Lanka till now & A. substriolata was only known from various Southeast Asian countries (China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam), in the present study these species are discovered from India which pronounce the geographical affinities of India with Sri Lanka and Southeast Asian countries and vice versa. Diagnosis, figures, distribution maps and remarks of these species are provided.

Graphical Abstract

Occurrence of Andreimyrme substriolata (Chen, 1957) and Odontomutilla fletcheri Lelej, Terine & Girish Kumar, 2020 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) in India, with note on their geographical affinities

Keywords

Chhattisgarh

Meghalaya

Mutillinae

Odontomutillinae

Oriental

velvet ants

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