Lopez Vinicius M, Bartholomay Pedro R, Lima Felipe V O, Silvestre Rogerio
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, Brasil. Laboratório de Estudos Ecológicos em Etologia e Evolução - Lestes, Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brasil.
Zootaxa. 2019 Feb 20;4559(3):573-576. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.3.8.
Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are solitary wasps whose larvae act as ectoparasitoids of encapsulated immatures of other insects, especially other solitary Hymenoptera (Luz et al. 2016). The natural history of most mutillids is unknown; for example, only 2-3% of the species have their hosts reported (Brothers 1989). Apidae species, however, are among the hymenopterans most commonly parasitized by velvet ants, with over 30 recorded cases in literature involving different genera of both host and parasite (Luz et al. 2016).
蚁蜂（蚁蜂科）是独居黄蜂，其幼虫为其他昆虫未成熟的被包囊个体的体外寄生蜂，尤其是其他独居膜翅目昆虫（卢兹等人，2016年）。大多数蚁蜂的自然史尚不清楚；例如，只有2%-3%的物种有寄主记录（布拉泽斯，1989年）。然而，蜜蜂科物种是最常被蚁蜂寄生的膜翅目昆虫之一，文献中有超过30例记录，涉及寄主和寄生蜂的不同属（卢兹等人，2016年）。
