species 438 observations

Dasymutilla coccineohirta

Dasymutilla coccineohirta

Field notes

Dasymutilla coccineohirta is a species of velvet ant found in North America. Coloration of the "fuzz" (seta) on the females is variable, ranging from red to white. It is found along the Pacific coast as far north as Washington and Idaho and as far south as Baja California state.

Dasymutilla clytemnestra was recently synonymized with D. coccineohirta. It is similar to Dasymutilla fulvohirta, but "may be distinguished by the marginal cell being smaller and the clothing much coarser."

This species was first described by Charles Alfred Blake in 1871 from a specimen collected in California.

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Range

United States

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