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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Thynnoidea » Chyphotid Wasps (Chyphotidae) » Chyphotinae » Chyphotes
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Velvet Ant ID Request - Chyphotes - male
Copyright © 2013 A. Hendrickson

Velvet Ant ID Request - Chyphotes - Male
Camp Wood, Edwards County, Texas, USA
May 22, 2013
I believe this a different species of Velvet Ant from the one posted earlier at ? Possibly a nocturnal Sphaeropthalminae? I had one ID'd a year ago that was ID'd as Spaeropthalma auripilis, but it had dark, almost black wings.
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Contributed by A. Hendrickson on 24 May, 2013 - 12:30pm
Last updated 3 July, 2013 - 6:17pm

Bradynobaenidae: Chyphotes sp., male
This is a bradynobaenid in the genus Chyphotes. They superficially look like mutillids.

Moved from Velvet Ants.
… George Waldren, 24 May, 2013 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Sorry about that!
Did I redeem myself with this one?



Or is that guess wrong as well? (At least I didn't move it beyond order.)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 24 May, 2013 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

 
No worries at all!
This new one is a brachycistidine tiphiid -- the nocturnal aculeates can sometimes be tricky.
… George Waldren, 24 May, 2013 - 6:03pm login or register to post comments

 
You're not kidding!
I'm gonna have to be more careful. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 24 May, 2013 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

 
That was fast!
Thank you very much for the help. Sorry I got this wrong. Really enjoyed seeing the other one!

Ann
… A. Hendrickson, 24 May, 2013 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 24 May, 2013 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

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