Dasymutilla flammifera is a species of velvet ant found along the Pacific coast of North America and inland to Idaho and Arizona.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Mutillidae |
| Genus: | Dasymutilla |
| Species: | D. flammifera
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| Dasymutilla flammifera Mickel, 1928
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This species was first described by American entomologist Clarence E. Mickel in 1928.[3][4] Per Mickel, D. flammifera females are "very dark mahogany red, the pubescence of the head, thorax, and abdomen above scarlet; length, 13 mm" and are similar to Dasymutilla sackenii except for "the sculpture of the genae," coloration, and the fuzz on the femora. The type species was collected near Claremont, California.[4]: 240–242
References
edit- ^ "Dasymutilla flammifera". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ Manley, Donald G.; Williams, Kevin A.; Pitts, James P. (2020-05-11). "Keys to Nearctic Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with Notes on Taxonomic Changes since Krombein (1979)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 122 (2): 335. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.335. ISSN 0013-8797.
- ^ "Species Dasymutilla flammifera". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ a b Mickel, Clarence E. (1928). "Biological and Taxonomic Investigations on the Mutillid Wasps". Bulletin of the United States National Museum (143). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1–351. doi:10.5479/si.03629236.143.1.
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