Gold-ring Velvet Ant
Wingless Female
Ellura
Gold-ringed Red Velvet Ant
Female, Profile
 
                      
Gold-ringed Red Velvet Ant (Eurymutilla sp ES02)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Velvet Ant (Wasp: Mutillidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Gold-ringed Red Velvet Ant (Eurymutilla sp ES02)
This Photo:     🔍Female, Dorsal🔎

Thank you Dr Kevin Williams, Dr Martin Hauser & Pedro Reck Bartholomay for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~9mm long (head & body).
While the same genus this seems to be a different to our other as the top of the body is quite red, as are the antennae. The other is all black.

Copyright © 2020-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 26-Jan-2020
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.