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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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Reality Check: Dasymutilla sackenii? - Dasymutilla - female
Copyright © 2009 Ron Hemberger

Reality Check: Dasymutilla sackenii? - Dasymutilla - Female
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, Orange County, California, USA
October 21, 2009
Dasymutilla sackenii is the most common velvet ant around here, and I think this is a sparsely haired version.

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Reality Check: Dasymutilla sackenii? - Dasymutilla - female Reality Check: Dasymutilla sackenii? - Dasymutilla - female
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 23 October, 2009 - 12:09am
Last updated 3 November, 2009 - 1:37pm

Moved
Moved from Velvet Ants.
… Ron Hemberger, 3 November, 2009 - 1:37pm login or register to post comments

If you put a gun to my head...
I would say Dasymutilla sackenii, but it is fairly impossible to be sure that it is not D. californica or D. coccineohirta. Both of those species can have the colorful hair ranging from stark white to brilliant red.
… Kevin Williams, 3 November, 2009 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

 
Thank, Kevin
I'll move it to genus.
… Ron Hemberger, 3 November, 2009 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ron Hemberger, 23 October, 2009 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

Going bald....
This specimen is so worn that I wonder if any ID is possible. Still, the remaining hair(s?) are shorter than those for D. sackenii, I believe. Meanwhile, she should do an ad for Grecian Formula or something:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 23 October, 2009 - 8:51am login or register to post comments

 
No wonder she was running so rapidly.
Elmer's glue might be an appropriate client.
… Ron Hemberger, 23 October, 2009 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

Ron hi--
pls post them furry things to Mutillidae, George will pick up rapidly
… v belov, 23 October, 2009 - 8:02am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks =v=
Done
… Ron Hemberger, 23 October, 2009 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

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