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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) » Sphaeropthalminae » Dasymutillini » 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 - 5:00pm
Last updated 22 September, 2009 - 7:56am

This is probably D. californica
I am fairly sure that this is D. californica, but the diagnostic tubercles on the back of the head are hidden, so it could possibly be D. coccineohirta.
… Kevin Williams, 2 October, 2009 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Chris Saetti, 22 September, 2009 - 7:56am login or register to post comments

These are obviously two different individuals
so the images should not be linked. Were they a mating pair?
… margarethe brummermann, 31 August, 2009 - 12:33am login or register to post comments

 
linked photo
I did not know this was a violation of protocol. I was simply making the point that they appeared to be sexually dimorphic with respect to the wings.
… Chris Saetti, 31 August, 2009 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

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