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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

Subfamily Sphaeropthalminae

Dasymutillini · Ephutini · Pseudomethocini · Nocturnal Velvet Ants

Tribe Dasymutillini
uncommon ant - Dasymutilla - female Red Ant - Dasymutilla occidentalis large Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla bioculata - male unknown velvet ant2 - Dasymutilla bioculata - female Cow killer - Dasymutilla occidentalis - female W Oregon Dasymutilla - Dasymutilla - female Dasymutilla - female Female, Thistledown Velvet Ant? - Dasymutilla gloriosa - female

Tribe Ephutini
Mutillidae? Genus? - Ephuta - male ID for Velvet Ant with white head? - Ephuta argenticeps - female mutillid 1 - Ephuta - female Bee? - Ephuta pauxilla - male velvet ant - Ephuta Unknown Wasp - Ephuta Dasymutilla. ? - Ephuta 3023371 Tiphiid - Ephuta

Tribe Pseudomethocini
Velvet Ant - Pseudomethoca simillima - female Pseudomethoca oceola - female Pseudomethoca vanduzei - female Velvet Ant - Pseudomethoca frigida Velvet Ant - Pseudomethoca frigida Velvet Ant - Pseudomethoca frigida Velvet Pseudomethoca frigida - female

Tribe Sphaeropthalmini - Nocturnal Velvet Ants
red - male Mutillid wasp - Sphaeropthalma pensylvanica - female Mutillid Wasp? - Sphaeropthalma pensylvanica - male Mutillid - Sphaeropthalma Mutillidae? - Sphaeropthalma unicolor Soldier Fly?? Mutillidae - Sphaeropthalma - female Mutillidae - Sphaeropthalma - female


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