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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 » Pacific Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla aureola)
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fuzzy Ant / male - Dasymutilla aureola - male
Copyright © 2007 Beth Sands

fuzzy Ant / male - Dasymutilla aureola - Male
Pleasanton / Sunol, Alameda County, California, USA
October 6, 2007
Size: 1/2 "
I thought this was a female velvet Ant at first until I saw the wings . This fellow was found on flowering Coyote bush and only let me take two photos of him . Thanks for any comments , Beth
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Contributed by Beth Sands on 6 October, 2007 - 7:08pm
Last updated 17 August, 2021 - 7:28pm

Moved
Moved from Dasymutilla.
… john and jane balaban, 9 October, 2007 - 7:05pm login or register to post comments

This is a wasp
called a velvet ant. Lot's of info in the guide, and one of the Velvet ant specialists will probably be able to tell you which one.
… john and jane balaban, 6 October, 2007 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Dasymutilla aureola?
The genus is Dasymutilla, the species might be D. aureola. I'm not 100% sure, I'm moving this to the genus page, it will have more luck there.
… George Waldren, 7 October, 2007 - 1:19pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree
The head shape is definitive for D. aureola. From the side view it is sort of hard to tell, but I am pretty confident that this is the wide-headed D. aureola.
… Kevin Williams, 9 October, 2007 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

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