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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets (Vespoidea) » Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) » Dasymutilla
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Dasymutilla? - Dasymutilla
Copyright © 2009 Chris Saetti

Dasymutilla? - Dasymutilla
San Elijo Estuary, San Diego County, California, USA
August 30, 2009
Are these Red Velvet Ants?
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Contributed by Chris Saetti on 30 August, 2009 - 4:55pm
Last updated 22 September, 2009 - 7:54am

Dasymutilla
This is definitely either D. californica or D. coccineohirta. It is fairly impossible to be sure from a photo, though.
… Kevin Williams, 2 October, 2009 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Chris Saetti, 22 September, 2009 - 7:54am login or register to post comments

Both are velvet ants. Male has wings; female doesn't.
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… Ron Hemberger, 31 August, 2009 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

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