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Pacific Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla aureola)
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Copyright © 2009
Ken Schneider
Dasymutilla aureola? -
Dasymutilla aureola
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Skyline Ridge OSP, San Mateo County, California, USA
July 4, 2009
Size: ~ 5-10 mm
This is the only kind of mutillid I've been able to find in the Bay Area and it looks like the others I've submitted to Bug Guide... Is it D. aureola pacifica again?
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Contributed by
Ken Schneider
on 4 July, 2009 - 3:34pm
Last updated 8 July, 2009 - 3:19pm
Moved
Moved from
Velvet Ants
. Thanks, George!
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Ken Schneider
, 8 July, 2009 - 3:19pm
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D. aureola
Right on!
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George Waldren
, 8 July, 2009 - 2:43pm
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