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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 » Dasymutilla asopus
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Big red ant - Dasymutilla asopus
Copyright © 2009 kristineoff

Big red ant - Dasymutilla asopus
Trinity River Audubon Center, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
August 29, 2009
Size: .5" long
This little guy was running along quickly and would not hold still for a picture.
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Contributed by kristineoff on 12 September, 2009 - 5:00pm
Last updated 2 October, 2009 - 2:02pm

Moved
Moved from Dasymutilla.
… John R. Maxwell, 2 October, 2009 - 2:02pm login or register to post comments

Dasymutilla asopus
This specimen is D. asopus. Because of the angle, the thorax looks more elongate than other D. asopus specimens. If measured from the top of the propodeum, however, the thorax is equally as broad as it is long, separating this species from D. nigripes, D. creon, or D. vesta.
… Kevin Williams, 2 October, 2009 - 1:55pm login or register to post comments

Dasymutilla sp.
Moved from ID Request.
… George Waldren, 25 September, 2009 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

How about
Mutillidae (Velvet Ants) a type of wasp
http://bugguide.net/node/view/159
… John R. Maxwell, 12 September, 2009 - 5:10pm login or register to post comments

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