Review of the genus Rasnitsynitilla Lelej, 2006 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

Lelej A.S. 1
1 Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia

Year: 2026, Number: 558, Pages: 1-24

Fifteen species of the genus Rasnitsynitilla Lelej, 2006 are reviewed. Five new species are described, of them R. alexandri sp. n. is known by both males and females, R. brachypteroides sp. n., R. christiani sp. n. and R. sinevi sp. n. – by males only, and R. vanharteni sp. n. by female only. Two new combinations are proposed for R. pallipes (Lelej, 1985), comb. n. (transferred from the genus Skorikovia Ovtchinnikov, 2002) and R. hierosolymitana (Invrea, 1953), comb. n. (transferred from the genus Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870). The genus Rasnitsynitilla is recorded from Saudi Arabia for the first time. R. pallipes (Lelej, 1985) is newly recorded from United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and R. invreai Lelej, 2006 from United Arab Emirates. Keys to the males and females of the genus are provided.

DOI: 10.25221/fee.558.1

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Keywords: Mutillinae, Smicromyrmini, taxonomy, new species, new combination, key, Palaearctic, Afrotropical Region,

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