Black-trimmed Orange Velvet Ant Dorsal | Black Velvet Ant Male, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Velvet Ant (Wasp: Mutillidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Black-trimmed Orange Velvet Ant (Dasymutillini sp ES02) | ||||
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Thank you Dr Kevin Williams for identifying and Dr Denis Brothers, Dr Martin Hauser & Ned Fisher for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Probably the smallest we've come across, ~2.5mm | |||||
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