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Species Dasymutilla vestita

Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla vestita - female

Small Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla vestita - female

Female Mutillidae? - Dasymutilla vestita - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Pompiloidea (Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies)

Family Mutillidae (Velvet Ants)

Subfamily Sphaeropthalminae

Tribe Dasymutillini

Genus Dasymutilla

Species vestita (Dasymutilla vestita)

Explanation of Names

Dasymutilla vestita (Lepeletier 1845)

Internet References

Species page

Contributed by George Waldren on 25 June, 2007 - 11:36am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 November, 2014 - 10:34am

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