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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 ursus
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Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla ursus - male
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla ursus - Male
Shirley, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 17, 2011
Size: 8mm

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Contributed by tom murray on 18 July, 2011 - 6:17pm
Last updated 19 July, 2011 - 11:53pm

Dasymutilla vesta
This is D. vesta due to the sculpturing of the tegulae, overall habitus and distribution.

Were they unlinked accidentally?

Moved from Dasymutilla.
… George Waldren, 19 July, 2011 - 11:53pm login or register to post comments

 
George, thanks for all the help getting this identified to species. Somehow they were unlinked, so I linked them all back together.
… tom murray, 20 July, 2011 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

 
Anytime, Tom
Keep the Hymenoptera photos coming!
… George Waldren, 20 July, 2011 - 12:34am login or register to post comments

Dasymutilla sp.
Check the second sternite, and see if there is a pit filled with setae. If there is one, it is D. quadriguttata, if not, it's likely D. vesta since you found a female earlier.

It could also be D. bioculata -- I can't see enough of the second tergite.

Great photos!

Moved from Velvet Ants.
… George Waldren, 19 July, 2011 - 12:46pm login or register to post comments

 
picture added
I'm not sure exactly what that pit should look like, so I posted the picture.
… tom murray, 19 July, 2011 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Ventral shot of the second segment?
Do you have a ventral shot of the second segment? If the pit is there you can't miss it.
… George Waldren, 19 July, 2011 - 8:57pm login or register to post comments

 
semi ventral shot added
This is the best I have of the ventral segments, since I let the wasp go. Hope it shows the pit good enough.
… tom murray, 19 July, 2011 - 10:58pm login or register to post comments

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