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

family

Velvet Ants

Mutillidae

Includes
144 native 5 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Sphaeropthalminae 119 native
  • Mutillinae 25 native
  • Dasylabrinae
  • Myrmillinae

Range

United States

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

Most observed native velvet ants 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

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