New species and new distribution records for Pseudomethoca Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Central America

The following nine new species of Pseudomethoca are described and illustrated: P. hansoni n. sp.. R roubiki n. sp. and P. ugaldei n. sp. from Costa Rica and Panama: P bicarinata it. sp. and P. masneri n. sp. front El Salvador. Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica P. sermenoi n. sp. from El Salvador. Nicaragua and Costa Rica; P. bimaculata n. sp. from Panama and Ecuador: R cariaginense n. sp. from Costa Rica and Pseudomethoca jica n. sp. from Panama. New distribution records are presented for: Pseudomethoca expansa (Andre, 1906), Costa Rica and Panama, previously known from Guatemala, and Pseudomethoca retraspilota (Gerstaecker, 1874), New Combination from Mutilla, Panama, previously known from the type specimen from Colombia, Pseudomethoca cleonica (Cameron, 1894), from Mexico, is an additional New Combination from Sphaerophthalma. We have prepared two identification keys for the females of 20 species of Pseudomethoca. including the nine new species.