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Dasymutilla scitula

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Species of velvet ant

Dasymutilla scitula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Mutillidae
Genus: Dasymutilla
Species: D. scitula
Binomial name
Dasymutilla scitula
Mickel, 1928

Dasymutilla scitula is a species of velvet ant native to North America. This species is "restricted to the Great Basin ecoregion," and the females must be carefully distinguished from Dasymutilla arenivaga.

References

  1. "Dasymutilla scitula". iNaturalist. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  2. 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.


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