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Pacific Velvet Ant
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Pacific Velvet Ant

Dasymutilla aureola

Dasymutilla aureola, also known as the Pacific velvet ant, is a species of wasp in the velvet ant family Mutillidae, found in the western United States. It has a large, square-shaped head and red, yellow, or orange hair.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 119733.