Badge Velvet Ant Female, Ventral | Gold-ringed Red Velvet Ant Female, Dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Velvet Ant (Wasp: Mutillidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Gold-ring Velvet Ant (Eurymutilla sp ES01) | ||||
This Photo: | Wingless Female | ||||
Thank you Dr Kevin Williams for identifying and Dr Denis Brothers for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~10mm long (head & body). A more technical term for wingless insects is "Apterous". This one is all black. We are pretty sure the brown on top is dirt. | |||||
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