Black Velvet Ant: Wingless Female

Black Velvet Ant (Australotilla sp ES01)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Velvet Ant (Wasp: Mutillidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Black Velvet Ant (Australotilla 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
These are actually wasps. But the females are wingless and look like ants; hence the common name.
~9mm long (head & body)

This species is

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

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