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Family Mutillidae - Velvet Ants

 
 
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Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species
By G. Pagloano, D. Brothers, R. Cambra, A. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M. Matteini Palmerini, P. Scaramozzino, K. Williams, & M. Romano
Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, 36(1-2): 5-425, 2020

Velvet ants of North America
By Williams, Kevin A; Pan, Aaron D.; & Wilson, Joseph S.
Princeton Field Guides, 145: 440 pp., 2024

Taxonomic updates for diurnal velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in the United States of America
By Williams, Kevin
Zootaxa, 5301(1):105-123, 2023

Phylogeny and higher classification of Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) based on morphological reanalyses
By Brothers D.J., Lelej A.S.
J. Hymenopt. Res. 60: 1-97, 2017

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
Full text:
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.

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

The velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) of South Carolina
By Manley D.G.
South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Tech. Bull. 1100, 55 pp., 1991

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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