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| Dasymutilla aureola | |
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| Dasymutilla aureola | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Mutillidae |
| Genus: | Dasymutilla |
| Species: | D. aureola
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| Binomial name | |
| Dasymutilla aureola (Cresson, 1865)
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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] It has a large, square-shaped head and red, yellow, or orange hair.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dasymutilla aureola species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Will, Kip; Gross, Joyce; Rubinoff, Daniel; Powell, Jerry A. (2020). Field Guide to California Insects. Oakland, California: University of California Press. p. 447. ISBN 9780520288744.
External links
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