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Worldwide checklist of the island mutillid wasps (Hymenoptera Mutillidae) 533

viet (Lelej, 1995) and Glossotilla illudens Invrea, 1939); Krombeinidia unifasciata (Smith, 1855),
1941 are known only for Dang Kho (Vietnam) and whose record for Sulawesi (Smith, 1858; see also
Koyaama (Somalia), respectively, but it is unlikely Smith & Wallace, 1873) is doubtful (Lelej, 2005);
that are really endemic of these small coastal Mutilla marginata Baer, 1848, recorded for Sicily
islands and their distribution range probably in- by André (1899-1903) but not confirmed by
cludes neighboring continental areas. Conversely, Turrisi (1999); Myrmosa macrocephala Olivier,
Smicromyrme mauromoustakisi Invrea, 1940 from 1811, described from Java, which belongs to the
Cyprus is treated as endemic, because a record for family Tiphiidae (see Lelej, 2005); Odontomutilla
Palestine (Invrea, 1965) should be referred to an urania (Smith, 1857), whose terra typica is
yet undescribed species (P. Lo Cascio, unpubl. Melaka (Peninsular Malaysia) and not Borneo
data). Also, Wallacidia vicina (Sichel et Ra- (Lelej, 2005); Petersenidia gribodoi (Magretti,
doszkowski, 1870) is considered endemic of some 1892), whose records for Sumatra and New Gui-
Australasian islands because a record for India nea (Mantero, 1900) are due to erroneous identi-
given by André (1894) was not confirmed by Lelej fications (Mickel, 1935); Petersenidia subanalis
(2005). (Magretti, 1892), Trogaspidia aulica (Smith,
1855), T. pilosella (Magretti, 1892), T. fortinata
Species and records excluded from the checklist (Cameron, 1899), and T. pulchriceps (Cameron,
1892), whose records for Sri Lanka (André, 1903a,
Records of Mutillidae have been taken into 1907a; Bingham, 1897; Wickwar, 1908) have not
account in the checklist when identified at least at been verified by Lelej (2005) and need to be con-
generic rank and excluding those as: the “velvet firmed; Physetopoda discreta (Cameron, 1897),
ants” mentioned by Weiskittle (2004) for Pea whose record for Philippines (Bingham, 1897) is
Island (35.42N, 075.30W; code: US; surface: doubtful (Lelej, 2005); Sinotilla decora (Smith,
127.5 Km ; max elevation: 10 m a.s.l.; isolation: 1879), whose record for Java (Zavattari, 1913a) is
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10); an unspecified number of mutillids found on doubtful (Lelej, 2005); Trogaspidia analis (Lepe-
Coiba Island (7.28N, 081.46W; PA; 503.0; 425; letier, 1845), whose records for Sri Lanka, Borneo,
20) reported by Nieves-Aldrey & Fontal-Cazalla Sumatra, Bali, Sulawesi, Sumbawa, Ambon,
(1997); one unidentified morphospecies recorded Halmahera, Morotai, Ternate and Taiwan (André,
byElliot & Elliot (1984) for Cat Island (24.24N, 1907a; Zavattari, 1913b; Pagliano, 2005) have not
075.31W; BS; 386.5; 122; 50); two unidentified been confirmed by Mickel (1935) and Lelej
morphospecies recorded by Pizarro-Araya et al. (2005); Trogaspidia catanensis (Rossi, 1794),
(2014) for Chañaral Island (29.01S, 071.34W; CL; whose record for Zanzibar (Zavattari, 1910a) must
5.0; 145; 10); twenty-four (according to Callan be certainly referred to another species; Tro-
et al., 2011) or even twenty-five unidentified gaspidia floralis (Klug, 1829), whose record for
morphospecies (according to www.padil.gov.au: Zanzibar (Bischoff, 1920-1921) is due to erro-
80/barrow-island/) found during recent faunal neous identification (Nonveiller & Petersen,
investigations on Barrow Island (20.47S, 115.24E; 1995); Trogaspidia rubripes (André, 1901), recor-
AU; 234.0; 64; 10). ded for Cyprus and supposed to be the opposite
From the checklist have also been excluded: sex of Neotrogaspidia hammeri (Suárez, 1959) by
Dasylabris lybica (Invrea, 1940), recorded for Suárez (1959b), but recently treated as valid
Malta in the list of ZMUC collections (see species by Lelej (2002), who however has ex-
www.zmuc.dk/EntoWeb/collections-databaser/ cluded this island from its distribution range; Tro-
Hymenoptera), whose occurrence needs to be con- gaspidia repraesentans (Smith, 1855), erroneously
firmed; Ephutomorpha gaudens Zavattari, 1913, recorded by Smith & Wallace (1873) and Zavattari
described for New Guinea but successively (1913b) for Borneo and Java, respectively (Mickel,
neglected by Mickel (1935), whose taxonomic 1935; Lelej, 2005); Wallacidia sexmaculata (Swe-
value needs hence to be clarified; Hoplomutilla derus, 1787) recorded by Lepeletier de Saint-
gabbii (Blake, 1879), whose old records for Ja- Fargeau (1845) for Java from a specimen kept in
maica are due to the erroneous label of a specimen the Spinola’s collection (Regional Museum of
kept in the British Museum collections (Mickel, Natural Sciences, Turin) doubtfully identified as