First records of the genus Allotilla Schuster, 1949 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) in Brazil

George C. Waldren; Tiago Auko; Pedro Bartholomay; David Luz; Kevin Williams

doi:10.15560/12.3.1898

Check List 12(3): e19500, doi: 10.15560/12.3.1898

First records of the genus Allotilla Schuster, 1949 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) in Brazil

Tiago H. Auko^‡, Pedro R. Bartholomay^§, David R. Luz^|, George C. Waldren^¶, Kevin A. Williams^#

‡ Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Brazil§ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Brazil| Universidade Federal do Paraná., Brazil¶ Utah State University, United States of America# Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, United States of America

Corresponding author: Tiago Auko ( tiagoauko@gmail.com )

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Citation: Waldren G, Auko T, Bartholomay P, Luz D, Williams K (2016) First records of the genus Allotilla Schuster, 1949 (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) in Brazil. Check List 12(3): 1898. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.3.1898

Abstract

The monotypic genus Allotilla Schuster, 1949, previously known only from the Chaco biogeographic province of Argentina and Paraguay, is recorded for the first time in Brazil. These new records extend the known range of the genus to a new biogeographic dominion.

Keywords

Araucaria Forest province; Chaco province; Cerrado province, Sphaeropthalminae; velvet ant