Dasymutilla aureola

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Pompiloidea

Familia: Mutillidae
Subfamilia: Sphaeropthalminae
Genus: Dasymutilla
Species: Dasymutilla aureola
Name

Dasymutilla aureola

References

Arneson, L.C.; Pitts, J.P. 2003: Host records for Dasymutilla aureola (Cresson) and D. vestita (Lepeletier) (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from northeastern California. Pan-Pacific entomologist, 79(3-4): 245–246. [not seen]

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iNaturalist

Dasymutilla aureola is a species of velvet ant in the family Mutillidae, found in the western United States.[1][2]
References

"Dasymutilla aureola species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
Manley, Donald G.; Williams, Kevin A.; Pitts, James P. (2020). "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). doi:10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.335.