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Species Dasymutilla quadriguttata - Four-spotted Velvet Ant

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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

Trap-nesting wasps and bees: life histories, nests, and associates
By Krombein K.V.
Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC. vi+570 pp., 1967

Wasps: Their Biology, Diversity, and Role as Beneficial Insects and Pollinators of Native Plants
By Heather N. Holm
Pollination Press LLC; First edition, 2021

The Sting of the Wild: The Story of the Man Who Got Stung for Science
By Justin O. Schmidt
John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, MD, 2016
This book is useful in dispelling myths about broad groups (particularly the oft-maligned Mutillidae). The Appendix contains the rankings for 83 species and includes all ranked species. It's also worth noting that this does mean that the majority of species are unranked, so caution should be taken in creating sweeping claims (as often done on rather erroneous Internet memes).

Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily...
By Pilgrim E.M., von Dohlen C.D., Pitts J.P.
Zoologica Scripta 37: 539–560, 2008
Full title: Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies

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Identifying the sister group to the bees: a molecular phylogeny of Aculeata with an emphasis on the superfamily Apoidea
By Debevec A.H., Cardinal S., Danforth B.N.
Zoologica Scripta 41: 527-535, 2012

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