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Pacific Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla aureola)

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Dasymutilla aureola
Dasymutilla aureola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Mutillidae
Genus: Dasymutilla
Species:
D. aureola
Binomial name
Dasymutilla aureola
(Cresson, 1865)

Dasymutilla aureola, also known as the Pacific velvet ant, is a species of velvet ant in the family Mutillidae, found in the western United States.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ "Dasymutilla aureola species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  2. ^ Manley, Donald G.; Williams, Kevin A.; Pitts, James P. (2020). "Keys to Nearctic Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with Notes on Taxonomic Changes since Krombein (1979)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 122 (2). doi:10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.335.
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