Banded Velvet Ant Male, body bands | Golden Velvet Ant Dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Velvet Ant (Wasp: Mutillidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Red Velvet Ant (Ephutomorpha cordata) | ||||
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 A small one at ~5.5mm long (head & body). Kevin said "This one is probably E. cordata, but the species definitely belongs to a different genus than true Ephutomorpha. That new genus isn't named yet." | |||||
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