Dasymutilla aureola
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| Dasymutilla aureola | |
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| Dasymutilla aureola | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Mutillidae |
| Genus: | Dasymutilla |
| Species: | D. aureola |
| Binomial name | |
| Dasymutilla aureola (Cresson, 1865) | |
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.[1][2] It has a large, square-shaped head and red, yellow, or orange hair.[3]
