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Species Dasymutilla occidentalis - Common Eastern Velvet Ant

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

Addressing the Dasymutilla quadriguttata species-group and species-complex (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)...

By Pilgrim E.M., Williams K.A., Manley D.G., Pitts J.P.
J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 82: 231-249, 2009

Full title: Addressing the Dasymutilla quadriguttata species-group and species-complex (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae): several distinct species or a single, morphologically variable species?

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Contributed by v belov on 26 November, 2014 - 9:28am

Multifaceted assessment of species validity in the Dasymutilla bioculata species group (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

By Williams K.A., Manley D.G., Pilgrim E.M., von Dohlen C.D., Pitts J.P.
Systematic Entomology 36: 180-191, 2010

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Contributed by v belov on 26 November, 2014 - 7:53am

The California velvet ants of the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

By Hurd P.D., Jr.
Bull. Calif. Insect Survey 4: 89-118, 1951

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Contributed by v belov on 26 November, 2014 - 7:38am

North American velvet ants form one of the world’s largest known Müllerian mimicry complexes

By Joseph S. Wilson Joshua P. Jahner Matthew L. Forister Erica S. Sheehan Kevin A. Williams James P. Pitts

Current Biology. VOLUME 25, ISSUE 16, PR704-R706, AUGUST 17, 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.053
Describes several Müllerian mimicry complexes in North American Mutillidae. Dasymutilla complexes are described in another paper.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 27 March, 2019 - 6:12am

Velvet Ants, Mutillidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera)

By Jeffrey C. Hertz
University of Florida, IFAS Extension, 2007

Publication EENY-378, revised 2015. Available at:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/IN/IN71700.pdf

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Contributed by Cotinis on 8 September, 2017 - 8:13pm

The velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) of South Carolina

By Manley D.G.
South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Tech. Bull. 1100, 55 pp., 1991

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Contributed by v belov on 29 July, 2014 - 1:01pm

A key to genera and subgenera of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) in America North of Mexico with description of a new genus

By Manley D.G., Pitts J.P.
J. Hym. Res. 11: 72-100, 2002

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Contributed by v belov on 29 July, 2014 - 12:56pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps

The Sting of the Wild: The Story of the Man Who Got Stung for Science

By Justin O. Schmidt
John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, MD, 2016

This book is useful in dispelling myths about broad groups (particularly the oft-maligned Mutillidae). The Appendix contains the rankings for 83 species and includes all ranked species. It's also worth noting that this does mean that the majority of species are unranked, so caution should be taken in creating sweeping claims (as often done on rather erroneous Internet memes).

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