Species

Error message

  • Deprecated function: Optional parameter $page declared before required parameter $type is implicitly treated as a required parameter in require() (line 5 of /mnt/web118/c2/77/51582777/htdocs/drupal/modules/hymis_core/hymis_core.module).
  • Deprecated function: Optional parameter $interval declared before required parameter $type is implicitly treated as a required parameter in require() (line 5 of /mnt/web118/c2/77/51582777/htdocs/drupal/modules/hymis_core/hymis_core.module).
  • Deprecated function: Optional parameter $char declared before required parameter $base_url is implicitly treated as a required parameter in require() (line 10 of /mnt/web118/c2/77/51582777/htdocs/drupal/modules/hymis_index/hymis_index.module).
  • Deprecated function: Optional parameter $page declared before required parameter $base_url is implicitly treated as a required parameter in require() (line 10 of /mnt/web118/c2/77/51582777/htdocs/drupal/modules/hymis_index/hymis_index.module).

Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855)

Mutilla frigida Smith, 1855:60, ♀. ♀, Arctic America (The Great Bear Lake) (B.M., leg. Sir John Richardson); Mickel, 1935Mickel, C.E. 1935. Descriptions and records of Nearctic mutillid wasps of the genera Myrmilloides and Pseudomethoca. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 61:383-398.:389, Type ♀ (British Museum of Natural History, London). - As Pseudomethoca frigida: - Mickel, 1935Mickel, C.E. 1935. Descriptions and records of Nearctic mutillid wasps of the genera Myrmilloides and Pseudomethoca. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 61:383-398. (distribution), 388 (comb. nov.); Krombein, 1950Krombein, K.V. 1950. An annotated list of wasps from Nags Head and the Kill Devil Hills (Hymenoptera Aculeata). Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 65:262-272. (distribution); Hertz, 2007Hertz, J.C. 2007. Velvet Ants, Mutillidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). :1-11. (distribution); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425. (distribution). - As Pseudomethoca frigida frigida: - Krombein, 1963Krombein, K.V. 1963. Natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. XVII. Annotated list of the wasps (Hymenoptera: Bethyloidea, Scolioidea, Vespoidea, Pompiloidea, Sphecoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76:255-280. (distribution). - As Sphaerophthalma frigida:
Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871:252 Synonymized with Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855) by Mickel, 1935Mickel, C.E. 1935. Descriptions and records of Nearctic mutillid wasps of the genera Myrmilloides and Pseudomethoca. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 61:383-398.:388. - Blake, 1879Blake, C.A. 1879. Catalogue of the Mutillidae of North America, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 7:243-254. (distribution); Fox, 1899Fox, W.J. 1899. The North American Mutillidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 25:219-300. (distribution); Melander, 1903Melander, A.L. 1903. Notes on North American Mutillidae, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 29 (4):291-330. (distribution); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:109 ( listed as synonym of Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855)). - As Pseudomethoca canadensis: - Bradley, 1916Bradley, J.C. 1916. Contributions toward a monograph of the Mutillidae and their allies of America north of Mexico. III. The Mutillidae of the Eastern United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 42 (3):309-336. (distribution). - As Sphaerophthalma canadensis: - Blake, 1886Blake, C. 1886. Monograph of the Mutillidae of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 13:179-286. (distribution).
Photopsis Cressoni Fox, 1890:138, ♂. Holotype ♂, Camden County, N. J., Sept. 9, 1890. - Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:109 ( listed as synonym of Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855)). - As Photopsis cressonii: - Fox, 1899Fox, W.J. 1899. The North American Mutillidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 25:219-300.:224 ( listed as synonym of Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871). - As Phytopsis cressoni: - As Phytopsis cressoni: - As Pseudomethoca cressonii: - Ashmead, 1896Ashmead, W.H. 1896. Descriptions of new parasitic Hymenoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 23:179-234. (distribution).
Sphaerophthalma alveolata Provancher, 1895:110 - Fox, 1899Fox, W.J. 1899. The North American Mutillidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 25:219-300.:224 ( listed as synonym of Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:109 ( listed as synonym of Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855)).Sphaerophthalma alveolata Provancher, 1895:110 - Fox, 1899Fox, W.J. 1899. The North American Mutillidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 25:219-300.:224 ( listed as synonym of Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:109 ( listed as synonym of Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855)).
Mutilla neojerseiensis Dalla Torre, 1897:65, no descr. Replacement name for Phytopsis cressoni Fox, 1890 by Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:65 (nec Blake). - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution); Fox, 1899Fox, W.J. 1899. The North American Mutillidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 25:219-300.:224 ( listed as synonym of Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:109 ( listed as synonym of Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855)).

Sponsorship

The species Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855) has by now no sponsor. You can take the sponsorship for Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855) and here at this place your name and your foto would be placed.

With the sponsorship you support the further development, data update and improvment of data quality for all HymIS-projects.

If you have questions, just send us an email. If you want to take a sponsorship for a species, please send us an email (sponsorship@hymis.net) with your name and a picture with not more than 1 MB and of course the name of the species you want to adopt.

Have a look at one example page or read more...

Area distribution map

map of Pseudomethoca frigida (Smith, 1855)

Distribution

CANCanada
 (Blake, 1879 [as Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871]; Blake, 1886 [as Sphaerophthalma canadensis (Blake, 1871)]; Fox, 1899 [as Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871]; Bradley, 1916 [as Pseudomethoca canadensis (Blake, 1871)]; Mickel, 1935; Pagliano et al., 2020)
CAN-NoSCanada - Nova Scotia
 (Mickel, 1935)
USAUnited States
 (Pagliano et al., 2020)
USA-ALUnited States - Alabama
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-COUnited States - Colorado
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-CTUnited States - Connecticut
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-DCUnited States - Washington D.C.
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-FLUnited States - Florida
 (Ashmead, 1896 [as Pseudomethoca cressonii (Fox, 1890)]; Bradley, 1916 [as Pseudomethoca canadensis (Blake, 1871)]; Hertz, 2007)
USA-GAUnited States - Georgia
 (Bradley, 1916 [as Pseudomethoca canadensis (Blake, 1871)]; Mickel, 1935)
USA-IAUnited States - Iowa
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-ILUnited States - Illinois
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-INUnited States - Indiana
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-KSUnited States - Kansas
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-LAUnited States - Louisiana
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-MAUnited States - Massachusetts
 (Melander, 1903 [as Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871]; Mickel, 1935)
USA-MDUnited States - Maryland
 (Mickel, 1935; Krombein, 1963)
USA-MIUnited States - Michigan
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-MNUnited States - Minnesota
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-MTUnited States - Montana
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-NCUnited States - North Carolina
 (Bradley, 1916 [as Pseudomethoca canadensis (Blake, 1871)]; Mickel, 1935; Krombein, 1950)
USA-NEUnited States - Nebraska
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-NJUnited States - New Jersey
 (Fox, 1890 [as Photopsis cressoni Fox, 1890]; Ashmead, 1896 [as Pseudomethoca cressonii (Fox, 1890)]; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Mutilla neojerseiensis Dalla Torre, 1897]; Mickel, 1935)
USA-NYUnited States - New York
 (Bradley, 1916 [as Pseudomethoca canadensis (Blake, 1871)]; Mickel, 1935)
USA-OHUnited States - Ohio
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-OKUnited States - Oklahoma
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-PAUnited States - Pennsylvania
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-SDUnited States - South Dakota
 (Mickel, 1935)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Fox, 1899 [as Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871]; Melander, 1903 [as Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871]; Bradley, 1916 [as Pseudomethoca canadensis (Blake, 1871)]; Mickel, 1935)
USA-VAUnited States - Virginia
 (Melander, 1903 [as Mutilla canadensis Blake, 1871]; Bradley, 1916 [as Pseudomethoca canadensis (Blake, 1871)]; Mickel, 1935)

Literature

  • Ashmead, W.H. 1896. Descriptions of new parasitic Hymenoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 23:179-234.
  • Blake, C. 1886. Monograph of the Mutillidae of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 13:179-286.
  • Blake, C.A. 1879. Catalogue of the Mutillidae of North America, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 7:243-254.
  • Bradley, J.C. 1916. Contributions toward a monograph of the Mutillidae and their allies of America north of Mexico. III. The Mutillidae of the Eastern United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 42 (3):309-336.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.
  • Fox, W.J. 1890. Three new species of Aculeate Hymenoptera. Entomological News 1 (9):137-139.
  • Fox, W.J. 1899. The North American Mutillidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 25:219-300.
  • Hertz, J.C. 2007. Velvet Ants, Mutillidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). :1-11.
  • Krombein, K.V. 1950. An annotated list of wasps from Nags Head and the Kill Devil Hills (Hymenoptera Aculeata). Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 65:262-272.
  • Krombein, K.V. 1963. Natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. XVII. Annotated list of the wasps (Hymenoptera: Bethyloidea, Scolioidea, Vespoidea, Pompiloidea, Sphecoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76:255-280.
  • Melander, A.L. 1903. Notes on North American Mutillidae, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 29 (4):291-330.
  • Mickel, C.E. 1935. Descriptions and records of Nearctic mutillid wasps of the genera Myrmilloides and Pseudomethoca. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 61:383-398.
  • Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.
  • Smith, F. 1855. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III, Mutillidae and Pompilidae. :203 pp, 5 pl.