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Mutillidae Sphaerophthalma? - female

Mutillidae Sphaerophthalma? - Female
Big Gypsum Valley, San Miguel, Colorado County, Colorado, USA
June 10, 2012

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Mutillidae Sphaerophthalma? - female Mutellidae Sphaerophalma? Mutellidae Sphaerophalma?

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Moved from Velvet Ants.

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Moved from ID Request.

This is a female belonging in
This is a female belonging in one of the nocturnal genera. It probably isn't ID'able but we've got good people on here.

 
pretty sure
its Sphaeropthalma arota

 
This one likely can't be ID'd from a photo
or potentially even the specimen. Your best bet would be to run a light at night, collect males and have those identified. Males, while still little known, are much more easily identified than females. The majority of the 200+ nocturnal species in the southwest are based only on the male. Only two dozen or so females have been associated with their correct male.

 
heres the male
http://bugguide.net/node/view/702898
Dr. Pitts IDed these to arota
I also have better female pictures up somewhere as well,http://bugguide.net/node/view/702891
Thanks!

 
Excellent!
In that case, I would definitely go ahead and move the photos identified by him to the correct pages.

 
awesome!
Thanks, good to add to image base for these guys

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