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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Ants, Bees, and Stinging Wasps
  7. Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants, and Allies

superfamily

Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants, and Allies

Pompiloidea

Includes
241 native 2 introduced 9 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Velvet Ants 144 native
  • Spider-hunting Wasps 82 native
  • Club-horned Wasps 9 native
  • Myrmosid Wasps 6 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native spider wasps, velvet ants, and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Common Eastern Velvet Ant Dasymutilla occidentalis 19,262 observations
  • Four-spotted Velvet Ant Dasymutilla quadriguttata 2,437 observations
  • Priocnemis oregona 533 observations

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