Dasymutilla arachnoides
Appearance
Dasymutilla arachnoides | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Mutillidae |
Genus: | Dasymutilla |
Species: | D. arachnoides
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Binomial name | |
Dasymutilla arachnoides Smith, 1855
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Dasymutilla arachnoides is a species of velvet ant found in North America.[1] The female displays a "trifoliate pattern of black setae on tergum II."[2] This species is widespread in Mexico and Central America as far south as Honduras.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dasymutilla arachnoides". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ a b Manley, Donald G.; Williams, Kevin A.; Pitts, James P. (2020-05-11). "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): 335. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.335. ISSN 0013-8797.