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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) » Mutillinae » Trogaspidiini » Timulla » Timulla subhyalina
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Potential Red Velvet Ant - Timulla subhyalina - male
Copyright © 2019 Sara Simpkins

Potential Red Velvet Ant - Timulla subhyalina - Male
Rowan's Ravine Provincial Park, Last Mountain Lake Area, Saskatchewan, Canada
August 24, 2019
I initially thought this was a wasp from the wings and large size but iNaturalist suggested Velvet Ant. A few days later on the beach we saw a few small wingless ants with the same coloring as this bug and I am a bit more convinced that it could be a ant.

It was seen in the grasses beside the sidewalk in between Momma Bear Restaurant and the beach at Rowan's Ravine Provincial Park.

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Potential Red Velvet Ant - Timulla subhyalina - male Potential Red Velvet Ant - Timulla subhyalina - male
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Contributed by Sara Simpkins on 16 September, 2019 - 11:04am
Last updated 20 September, 2019 - 6:33pm

Mutillidae: Timulla subhyalina
This is a male velvet ant, Timulla subhyalina. The females of this species will look like the females here: https://bugguide.net/node/view/447752/bgpage

Moved from Velvet Ants.
… George Waldren, 20 September, 2019 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.

Velvet Ants are actually wasps in the family Mutillidae. They aren't true ants.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 16 September, 2019 - 11:07am login or register to post comments

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