Dasymutilla coccineohirta
| Dasymutilla coccineohirta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Mutillidae |
| Genus: | Dasymutilla |
| Species: | D. coccineohirta
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| Binomial name | |
| Dasymutilla coccineohirta Blake, 1871
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Dasymutilla coccineohirta is a species of velvet ant found in North America.[1] Coloration of the "fuzz" (seta) on the females is variable, ranging from red to white.[2] It is found along the Pacific coast as far north as Washington and Idaho and as far south as Baja California state.[1][2]
Dasymutilla clytemnestra was recently synonymized with D. coccineohirta.[2] It is similar to Dasymutilla fulvohirta, but "may be distinguished by the marginal cell being smaller and the clothing much coarser."[3]
This species was first described by Charles Alfred Blake in 1871 from a specimen collected in California.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Dasymutilla arachnoides". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ a b c Manley, Donald G.; Williams, Kevin A.; Pitts, James P. (2020-05-11). "Keys to Nearctic Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with Notes on Taxonomic Changes since Krombein (1979)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 122 (2): 335. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.335. ISSN 0013-8797.
- ^ a b Blake, Charles A. (1886). Monograph of the Mutillidae of North America. pp. 221–222. Be. Paper 220. – via digitalcommons.usu.edu.
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