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Ant with red head, trunk and black metasoma with white ring around it - Timulla vagans

Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA
July 30, 2006

I found this ant in my yard in Sheboygan, WI last summer. I'm not sure if it's from this area because I've never seen an ant like it before or since. I was told it's a red velvet ant, but the pics of red velvet ants that I've seen are hairy and don't look like this one. It's about the size of a normal black ant from this area.

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Contributed by db1971 on 9 October, 2007 - 12:04am
Last updated 23 March, 2019 - 11:46am

Moved

Moved from Timulla.

… George Waldren, 23 March, 2019 - 11:46am

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Are you sure this isn't a Tha

Are you sure this isn't a Thatching Ant? We have them all over Canada.

… Charisaturdel, 21 July, 2009 - 2:49pm

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Absolutely positive

Absolutely positive

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 21 July, 2009 - 2:50pm

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Crop

Can you crop this image and enlarge it?

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 10 October, 2007 - 10:33am

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I tried to crop it

but I think it should just be frassed

… margarethe brummermann, 30 August, 2009 - 1:12pm

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Maybe Timulla sp?

Some sort of Mutillidae, Velvet Ants. They're not actually ants, but wingless wasps (the males have wings). Be careful, they pack quite a punch if they sting you! I think it's at least in the genus Timulla, but as far as a species ID is concerned, I don't know.

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 9 October, 2007 - 12:22am

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definitiely timulla.

definitiely timulla.

… William Ericson, 9 October, 2007 - 9:02am

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Timulla grotei

Maybe Timulla grotei?

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 10 October, 2007 - 10:33am

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