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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 bioculata
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Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla bioculata
Copyright © 2007 Anthony Magee

Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla bioculata
Peyton, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
July 31, 2007
Size: 17 mm
This is the best shot I could get. It ran fast and long.

I'm thinking Dasymutilla?

Feel free to Frass if a better picture for CO in July comes up.
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Contributed by Anthony Magee on 31 July, 2007 - 7:34pm
Last updated 26 March, 2011 - 6:18pm

Moved
Moved from Dasymutilla creusa.
… George Waldren, 26 March, 2011 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

Most likely the same as...
… Anthony Magee, 17 August, 2007 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dasymutilla.
… Anthony Magee, 3 August, 2007 - 3:27pm login or register to post comments

Dasymutilla creusa
This one is D. creusa, based on range, coloration and how long the hair is.
… Kevin Williams, 3 August, 2007 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

Dasymutilla, I'd say too. But I'm no expert.
The vast majority of velvet ants at this site have been IDed as Dasymutilla, and yours looks like the few I've seen in person. As you observed, they don't stay put and are hard to shoot. You were able to get a nicely detailed shot; too bad the wasp ducked under the foliage. I guarantee you'll do better next time, in the absence of the "bug fever" that often comes with a first-time photo.
… Ron Hemberger, 1 August, 2007 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

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