Black-trimmed Orange Velvet Ant: Dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Velvet Ant (Wasp:Mutillidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

This Photo:

Dorsal

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

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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