Golden Velvet Ant
Female, dorsal		Ellura
Golden Velvet Ant
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Golden Velvet Ant (Ephutomorpha fulvocrinita)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Velvet Ant (Wasp:Mutillidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Golden Velvet Ant (Ephutomorpha fulvocrinita)
This Photo:     Female, profile
Thank you Dr Kevin Williams for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
A large velvet ant at ~12mm long.
When we asked Kevin about the differences with other observations of this species he said "this observation is closer in appearance to the type (collected back in 1936)"
Copyright © 2021-2026 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 30-Jan-2021
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.