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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 » Dasymutilla sicheliana
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Gorgeous Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla sicheliana
Copyright © 2014 Ty Fitzmorris

Gorgeous Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla sicheliana
Agua Fria National Monument, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
April 13, 2014
Size: Roughly 1.5 cm
Found walking in the boulders in the riparian gallery of the Agua Fria. Even more stunning in real life!

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Contributed by Ty Fitzmorris on 21 April, 2014 - 5:47pm
Last updated 20 May, 2014 - 12:43pm

Moved
Moved from Velvet Ants.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 20 May, 2014 - 12:43pm login or register to post comments

omGosh so pretty!
love it
… Edna Woodward, 21 April, 2014 - 11:12pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 21 April, 2014 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

Beautiful!
Wonderful critter, but not too cuddly!
It looks like something in Dasymutilla, maybe Dasymutilla sicheliana.
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… Jeff Brown, 21 April, 2014 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

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