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Species Dasymutilla sackenii - Sacken's Velvet Ant

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Pompiloidea (Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies)
Family Mutillidae (Velvet Ants)
Subfamily Sphaeropthalminae
Tribe Dasymutillini
Genus Dasymutilla
Species sackenii (Sacken's Velvet Ant)
Explanation of Names
Dasymutilla sackenii (Cresson 1865)
sackenii -- named after Karl Robert Osten-Sacken
Range
OR-NV-Baja(1)
Internet References
Species page(2)
Works Cited
1.Keys to nearctic Velvet Ants of the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with notes on taxonomic changes...
Manley D.G. , Williams K.A., Pitts J.P. 2020. Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 122: 335-414.
2.Nearctic Hymenoptera other (Discover Life's IDnature guide)
Contributed by Joel Kits on 17 March, 2005 - 11:23pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 6 June, 2023 - 9:02pm

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