Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel Dasymutilla sophrona Mickel, 1928. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 143:271. Holotype male, Willcox, Arizona, July 31, 1909 (A. K. Fisher) (No. 40749) [USNM] (examined). Diagnosis of Male (Plate C8I). This male has the apices of the middle and hind femora squarely truncate, with the surface of the outer lobe being sulcate. Also, the integument of the metasoma is ferruginous. The tibial spurs are white, and the head is clothed with pale setae, being silver to white. The setae of the metasoma are entirely ferruginous to orange. Female. Unknown. Distribution. USA (Arizona, Texas); Mexico (Morelos, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora). Remarks. This species is known only from the male. It is a relatively uncommon species, and only about a dozen specimens have been examined.

Published as part of MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 1487 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5086787