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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 bioculata

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Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla creusa? - Dasymutilla bioculata -

Lake Roosevelt, Ferry County, Washington, USA
August 27, 2006
Size: ~2cm

I've been meaning to upload this for the guide and the observation... took it to be D. creusa. 1 of 3

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Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla creusa? - Dasymutilla bioculata - female

Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla creusa? - Dasymutilla bioculata - female

Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla creusa? - Dasymutilla bioculata - female

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Contributed by Fred Bentler on 17 September, 2011 - 8:52am
Last updated 2 October, 2011 - 9:54am

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… John F. Carr, 2 October, 2011 - 9:54am

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Velvet Ant

Live close to Mojave have a lot here in various colors. Learned they are wasps and sting the heck out of you when I was 10 or so. Don't bother them,they don't bother me, and have their beautiful cousins here "the Tarantula Hawk". Gun metal blue body,orange wings, and not agressive if left alone. WOW on the comment left!!!

… reptileman, 20 September, 2011 - 8:35pm

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Ah, missed this...

Therefore, employing the phylogenetic species concept, Dasymutilla bimaculata Manley & Pitts, Dasymutilla chiron chiron (Blake), Dasymutilla chiron ursula (Cresson), Dasymutilla creusa creusa (Cresson), Dasymutilla creusa bellona (Cresson), Dasymutilla lepeletierii (Fox), Dasymutilla medea (Cresson), Dasymutilla melanippe melanippe Mickel, Dasymutilla melanippe conformis Mickel, Dasymutilla praegrandis praegrandis Mickel, Dasymutilla praegrandis russata Mickel, Dasymutilla pyrrhus (Fox) and Dasymutilla sulcatulla Mickel must be considered junior synonyms of Dasymutilla bioculata (Cresson).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00555.x/full

… Fred Bentler, 17 September, 2011 - 9:18am

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Right on, D. bioculata

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… George Waldren, 17 September, 2011 - 11:02am

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