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velvet ant - Dasymutilla bioculata
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

velvet ant - Dasymutilla bioculata
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
September 4, 2004
Contributed by tom murray on 23 April, 2005 - 4:28pm
Last updated 19 July, 2011 - 9:12pm

Moved
Moved from Dasymutilla.
… George Waldren, 19 July, 2011 - 9:12pm

Possibly Dasyutilla lepeletierii
This species looks like D. lepeletierii to me. It is widespread east of the Rocky Mountains. It could be something else, but it doesn't seem to have tubercles on its head, and seems to have both a scutellar scale and a carina anterior to the scale.
… Kevin Williams, 25 April, 2005 - 1:34pm

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