Genus Timulla

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Internet References

Unknown velvet ant - Timulla euterpe - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

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

Superfamily Vespoidea (Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets)

Family Mutillidae (Velvet Ants)

Genus Timulla

Explanation of Names

Author of genus is Ashmead 1899.

Numbers

Nearctica.com lists 30 species.

Identification

Small ant-like mutillids. Characteristics of females (Univ. Florida Mutillidae):

eyes strongly ovate

mesosoma long, rectangular, typically narrowed in middle

tergite II generally maculated with two spots or lines of pale setae

See the key in the reference above for more details.

Internet References

Univ. Florida Featured Creatures--Mutillidae

Contributed by Joel Kits on 17 March, 2005 - 11:22pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 24 March, 2008 - 10:55am

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