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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 » Common Eastern Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)
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black and red beauty - Dasymutilla occidentalis - male
Copyright © 2012 Jennifer Bennett

black and red beauty - Dasymutilla occidentalis - Male
Sweetwater, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA
July 31, 2012
Size: 1 inch
Has 2 pairs of wings, found already dead in driveway at dusk. Very beautiful, 'undamaged'.
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Contributed by Jennifer Bennett on 1 August, 2012 - 8:24pm
Last updated 10 August, 2012 - 11:48am

Moved
Moved from Velvet Ants.
… George Waldren, 10 August, 2012 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

This is Dasymutilla occidenta
This is Dasymutilla occidentalis.
… Jordan Gesell, 1 August, 2012 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.

Male Mutillid ("velvet ant") of some kind. Others will be able to tell you more.

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 1 August, 2012 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

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