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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 nocturna
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Velvet ant after dusk from Kelso Dunes - Dasymutilla nocturna - female
Copyright © 2015 Aaron Schusteff

Velvet ant after dusk from Kelso Dunes - Dasymutilla nocturna - Female
Kelso Dunes, San Bernardino County, California, USA
August 1, 2015
I think the color of hairs on the venter can be diagnostic, but I don't know if the view here is good enough to see any such hairs.

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Velvet ant after dusk from Kelso Dunes - Dasymutilla nocturna - female Velvet ant after dusk from Kelso Dunes - Dasymutilla nocturna - female
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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 19 August, 2015 - 12:54am
Last updated 15 September, 2017 - 5:37pm

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