🦋 Family

Mutillidae

11 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Hymenoptera › Mutillidae

Dasymutilla gloriosa, the thistledown velvet ant, is a mid-sized North American desert mutillid wasp with camouflaged females that can sting.

Dasymutilla occidentalis is a parasitoid velvet wasp commonly mistaken for an ant, with wingless sting-bearing females.

Satan's velvet ant (Dasymutilla satanas) is a large North American Great Basin desert velvet ant species.

Dasymutilla magnifica (the magnificent velvet ant) is a North American velvet ant hard to distinguish from a close relative.

Dasymutilla gorgon is a velvet ant species native to central North America, ranging from Colorado to Louisiana.

Dasymutilla foxi is a locally common velvet ant species found in Mexico and the southwestern United States.

Dasymutilla pseudopappus is a North American native velvet ant species found in southwestern North America.

Mutilla europaea, the velvet ant, is a parasitoid wasp widespread across Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

Ronisia barbarula is a Mutillidae wasp species distinguishable by its distinctively triangular head white hair spot.

Ronisia ghilianii is a Mutillidae wasp species, whose females closely resemble those of R. barbarula but differ in head spot shape.

Myrmosa unicolor is a species of wasp classified within the wasp family Myrmosidae.

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