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Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla alesia
Copyright © 2006 Dorothy E. Pugh

Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla alesia
White Pines Nature Preserve, Chatham County, North Carolina, USA
April 16, 2006
Size: about half an inch long
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Contributed by Dorothy E. Pugh on 14 May, 2006 - 5:11am
Last updated 25 June, 2007 - 9:43pm

Moved
Moved from Dasymutilla.
… George Waldren, 25 June, 2007 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

Dasymutilla alesia
This is D. alesia, a species with pretty distinct coloration, at least compared to other eastern Dasymutilla.
… Kevin Williams, 6 July, 2006 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

 
What about
Dasymutilla vesta? There's a picture of one on in Marshall's 2006 book Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity on p. 579.
… Dorothy E. Pugh, 8 July, 2006 - 7:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Possibly
It could be D. vesta, but I have never seen any specimens of D. vesta with the third tergite covered entirely with black setae.
… Kevin Williams, 10 July, 2006 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

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