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Thought to belong to the family Mutillidae, known as Velvet Ants. This specimen was rescue from a swimming pool in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
It has been ID to tribe Dasymutillini on iNaturalistAU observation 254887686
Check out our Velvet Ant Family (Tribe Dasymutillini) in Alice Springs.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Suborder: Apocrita
- Infraorder: Aculeata
- Superfamily: Pompiloidea
- Family: Mutillidae
- Subfamily: Sphaeropthalminae
Source: Atlas of Living Australia – /species/Sphaeropthalminae
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Suborder: Apocrita
- Infraorder: Aculeata
- Superfamily: Pompiloidea
- Family: Mutillidae
- Subfamily: Sphaeropthalminae
- Tribe: Dasymutillini
Source: iNaturalistAU – /taxa/1124745-Dasymutillini
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for ID to Iskander Kaliananda and Dane Jensen, member of Australian Polistinae and other Hymenoptera, https://www.facebook.com/groups/188453645581988/
- Velvet Ants (Family Mutillidae), ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/254887686
- Mutillidae, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Mutillidae
- Velvet Ants (Family Mutillidae), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/48511-Mutillidae
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