Dasymutilla bioculata
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| Dasymutilla bioculata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Mutillidae |
| Genus: | Dasymutilla |
| Species: | D. bioculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Dasymutilla bioculata Cresson, 1865 | |
Dasymutilla bioculata is a species of velvet ant found in south-central North America, between roughly between the southern border of South Dakota and the northern border of Zacatecas.[1] The specific name comes from the "two orange spots" on the second terga in males.[1]: 67 Velvet ants are actually a type of parasitic wasp; Dasymutilla bioculata females lays their eggs inside the cocoons of other wasps.[2] Males of this species are very difficult to visually distinguish from Dasymutilla quadriguttata and Dasymutilla vesta males.[3] This species has 21 binonimal synonyms.[3]
